Greetings FreeRadius people, This discussion started on the postgresql's "pgsql-general" mailing list. The problem here is that the freeradius-postgresql package needs to link against libpgsql, which means that it may be indirectly linked against openssl. There is a conflict between OpenSSL's BSD license and the GPL which means that it's not legal to distribute a copy of GPL code that is linked in this way. It appears that several other GPL apps have added a special clause to their license that allows them to be linked against OpenSSL. Could this be done for freeradius/freeradius-postgresql as well? This could pave the way towards enhanced freeradius support in Debian, specifically the addition of freeradius-postgresql to Debian's mainline. For your reference, here is the start of the thread on the pgsql-general list that got us to this point: http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-general/2006-04/msg00247.php Thanks, Tyler Tom Lane <tgl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > 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. > Hm. So can we lobby freeradius to tweak their license similarly?
