Tom Lane <tgl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > Tyler MacDonald <tyler@xxxxxx> writes: >> OK, I'm kind of confused about how the legal red tape works here. >> Debian packages all sorts of GPL code, and both openssl and postgres are >> released under more liberal licenses. About the only legal issue I could see >> is the legalities surrounding the export of openssl, but I thought debian >> had already found it's own way around that. > > [ looks in openssl tarball... ] It looks like the openssl license is > essentially old-style BSD (ie, with advertising clause). If Debian is > being anal about refusing to ship old-BSD code linked to GPL code, > there's going to be a whole lot of stuff that doesn't support SSL on > Debian, not only Postgres. Or are they selectively enforcing this > policy against PG? I don't think so. I got curious and looked at what's on my Ubuntu system: Courier IMAP is GPL with an additional clause that explicitly allows linking with OpenSSL; Postfix has an Apache-ish license; Exim is GPL and also explicitly allows linking with OpenSSL; Cyrus IMAP is BSDish; Apache is non-GPL... I can't think offhand of anything that is GPL and links with OpenSSL without an explicit clause permitting same. -Doug
