On Sat, Apr 22, 2006 at 01:10:34AM +0200, Nicolas Baradakis wrote: > Tyler MacDonald wrote: > > > I see this continuining to be a problem for the postgresql community > > given how many GPLed projects use libpq. freeradius might be fixable with a > > change in their license, but for postgresql to continue to be reasonably > > usable by GPLed projects, either OpenSSL's license needs to change, or we > > need to support an alternative secure socket api like GnuTLS. > > > > GnuTLS is LGPL, which isn't quite as liberal as postgresql's > > license, but should still be ubiqutous enough to be worthwhile. > > As PostgreSQL is participating in Google Summer of Code 2006, perhaps > the GnuTLS support could be a student's project. >
Before someone runs off to consider this, I've already done it. My preliminary patch is here: http://svana.org/kleptog/temp/gnutls.patch There are some issues with it, but nothing major. I plan on cleaning it up and submitting it soon. Have a nice day, -- Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog@svana.org> http://svana.org/kleptog/ > From each according to his ability. To each according to his ability to > litigate.
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