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Re: [OT] MySQL is bad, but THIS bad?

Andreas Pflug <pgadmin@pse-consulting.de>

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From: Andreas Pflug <pgadmin@pse-consulting.de>
To: Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog@svana.org>
Cc: Mark Woodward <pgsql@mohawksoft.com>, "Joshua D. Drake" <jd@commandprompt.com>, "Jim C. Nasby" <jnasby@pervasive.com>, John DeSoi <desoi@pgedit.com>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2006-05-19T15:52:02Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
Martijn van Oosterhout wrote:

> The biggest headache I find with using postgres is that various GPL
> licenced programs have trouble directly shipping postgresql support
> because of our use of OpenSSL. Each and every one of those program
> needs to add an exception to their licence for distributors to
> distribute postgresql support.

They could distribute a non-ssl-enabled version, *if* they really need 
to include libpq in the package, or advise to to replace it with the 
common version if ssl is required. I bet >99 % of pgsql connections are 
not encrypted anyway.

Regards,
Andreas