On Fri, 2006-04-07 at 17:24, Tyler MacDonald wrote: > 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 Please note that PostgreSQL is NOT GPL, but BSD. Just sayin'
