* Joshua D. Drake ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Thu, 2006-12-28 at 13:01 -0500, Stephen Frost wrote: > > OpenSSL isn't compatible with the GPL. > > The original discussion stated that well placed attorneys in the market > feel that the FSF is trying to reach beyond the hands of god on this one > and that we don't need to worry about it (my words, for actual quote > read thread ;)).
Yeah, that's nice. > > We do care because GPL > > applications link against libpq and therefore can end up linking against > > OpenSSL. \ > > Our concern is whether PostgreSQL is legally linked, not if something > else is. /me is trying to think very hard of a program that is GPL that > links to to PostgreSQL that would have a problem.... Looking at it from the point of view that psql if fine and therefore there isn't a problem is *very* short-sighted. Some of the packages currently in Debian/unstable which are licensed under the GPL and linked against libpq4 (a few of which have already provided exceptions for linking against OpenSSL): amarok http://packages.debian.org/changelogs/pool/main/a/amarok/current/copyright aolserver4-nspostgres http://packages.debian.org/changelogs/pool/main/a/aolserver4-nspostgres/current/copyright asterisk (which has provided an OpenSSL exception) http://packages.debian.org/changelogs/pool/main/a/asterisk/current/copyright bacula (which has provided an OpenSSL exception) http://packages.debian.org/changelogs/pool/main/b/bacula/current/copyright bandwidthd http://packages.debian.org/changelogs/pool/main/b/bandwidthd/current/copyright courier http://packages.debian.org/changelogs/pool/main/c/courier/current/copyright cvm http://packages.debian.org/changelogs/pool/main/c/cvm/current/copyright cvsnt http://packages.debian.org/changelogs/pool/main/c/cvsnt/current/copyright cyphesis-cpp http://packages.debian.org/changelogs/pool/main/c/cyphesis-cpp/current/copyright exim4 (which has provided an OpenSSL exception) http://packages.debian.org/changelogs/pool/main/e/exim4/current/copyright gambas http://packages.debian.org/changelogs/pool/main/g/gambas/current/copyright gnokii http://packages.debian.org/changelogs/pool/main/g/gnokii/current/copyright gnugk (which has provided an OpenSSL exception) http://packages.debian.org/changelogs/pool/main/g/gnugk/current/copyright gnustep-dl2 http://packages.debian.org/changelogs/pool/main/g/gnustep-dl2/current/copyright gphotocoll http://packages.debian.org/changelogs/pool/main/g/gphotocoll/current/copyright grass http://packages.debian.org/changelogs/pool/main/g/grass/current/copyright guile-pg http://packages.debian.org/changelogs/pool/main/g/guile-pg/current/copyright guile-simplesql http://packages.debian.org/changelogs/pool/main/g/guile-simplesql/current/copyright jabberd2 http://packages.debian.org/changelogs/pool/main/j/jabberd2/current/copyright libdbd-pg-perl http://packages.debian.org/changelogs/pool/main/libd/libdbd-pg-perl/current/copyright postgis http://packages.debian.org/changelogs/pool/main/p/postgis/current/copyright And quite a few others, I'm sure, I just got tired of looking. Thanks, Stephen
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