On Sun, Jun 28, 2020 at 10:18:12AM +0200, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> On 2020-06-27 14:50, Christoph Berg wrote:
> > Re: Peter Eisentraut
> > > What would be the advantage of using wolfSSL over OpenSSL?
> >
> > Avoiding the OpenSSL-vs-GPL linkage problem with readline.
>
> We have added support for allegedly-OpenSSL compatible libraries such as
> LibreSSL before, so some tweaks for wolfSSL would seem acceptable. However,
> I doubt we are going to backpatch them, so unless you want to take
> responsibility for that as a packager, it's not really going to help anyone
> soon. And OpenSSL 3.0.0 will have a new license, so for the next PostgreSQL
> release, this problem might be gone.
Oh, that is a long time coming --- it would be nice.
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