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No more libedit?! - openssl plans to switch to APL2

От
Andres Freund
Дата:
Hi,

According to https://www.openssl.org/blog/blog/2015/08/01/cla/ openssl
is planning to relicense to the apache license 2.0. While APL2 is not
compatible with GLP2 it *is* compatible with GPL3.

Greetings,

Andres Freund



Re: No more libedit?! - openssl plans to switch to APL2

От
Robert Haas
Дата:
On Sat, Aug 1, 2015 at 11:14 AM, Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> wrote:
> According to https://www.openssl.org/blog/blog/2015/08/01/cla/ openssl
> is planning to relicense to the apache license 2.0. While APL2 is not
> compatible with GLP2 it *is* compatible with GPL3.

What's the connection to libedit?

-- 
Robert Haas
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Re: No more libedit?! - openssl plans to switch to APL2

От
Andres Freund
Дата:
On 2015-08-02 12:34:43 -0400, Robert Haas wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 1, 2015 at 11:14 AM, Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> wrote:
> > According to https://www.openssl.org/blog/blog/2015/08/01/cla/ openssl
> > is planning to relicense to the apache license 2.0. While APL2 is not
> > compatible with GLP2 it *is* compatible with GPL3.
> 
> What's the connection to libedit?

Some platforms have to use libedit because linking to both libreadline
and openssl is of debated legality. GPL prohibits additional
restrictions and openssl's license has an advertising clause which is
often interpreted violating the additional-restrictions clause.

Andres



Re: [HACKERS] No more libedit?! - openssl plans to switch to APL2

От
Andres Freund
Дата:
On 2015-08-01 17:14:10 +0200, Andres Freund wrote:
> According to https://www.openssl.org/blog/blog/2015/08/01/cla/ openssl
> is planning to relicense to the apache license 2.0. While APL2 is not
> compatible with GLP2 it *is* compatible with GPL3.

Just 5 minutes later, some progress on that front:

https://www.openssl.org/blog/blog/2017/03/20/license/

- Andres



Re: [HACKERS] No more libedit?! - openssl plans to switch to APL2

От
Andreas Karlsson
Дата:
On 08/01/2015 05:14 PM, Andres Freund wrote:
> According to https://www.openssl.org/blog/blog/2015/08/01/cla/ openssl
> is planning to relicense to the apache license 2.0. While APL2 is not
> compatible with GLP2 it *is* compatible with GPL3.

Great! This means that the Debian packages will eventually be able to 
drop their LD_PRELOAD hack, which never worked perfectly due to 
compiling against libedit or libreadline header resulting in different 
binaries.

Andreas



Re: [HACKERS] No more libedit?! - openssl plans to switch to APL2

От
Andres Freund
Дата:
On 2017-03-24 02:31:47 +0100, Andreas Karlsson wrote:
> On 08/01/2015 05:14 PM, Andres Freund wrote:
> > According to https://www.openssl.org/blog/blog/2015/08/01/cla/ openssl
> > is planning to relicense to the apache license 2.0. While APL2 is not
> > compatible with GLP2 it *is* compatible with GPL3.
> 
> Great! This means that the Debian packages will eventually be able to drop
> their LD_PRELOAD hack, which never worked perfectly due to compiling against
> libedit or libreadline header resulting in different binaries.

Well, relicensing is hard. It's far from guaranteed to succeed...

Greetings,

Andres Freund