Re: TODO: GNU TLS

* Joshua D. Drake (jd@commandprompt.com) 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