* Alvaro Herrera (alvherre@2ndquadrant.com) wrote:
> Stephen Frost wrote:
>
> > The issue for Debian, at least, isn't really about libreadline or
> > libedit, it's about the GPL and the OpenSSL license. From the Debian
> > perspective, if we were able to build with GNUTLS or another SSL library
> > other than OpenSSL (which I know we've made some progress on, thanks
> > Heikki...) then Debian wouldn't have any problem shipping PG linked with
> > libreadline.
>
> What if OpenSSL were to switch to APL2?
> http://www.postgresql.org/message-id/20150801151410.GA28344@awork2.anarazel.de
According to that post, it would depend what libreadline is licensed
under. There may be other complications with GPL3 and other libraries
we link against, though I can't think of any offhand and perhaps there
aren't any.
Thanks!
Stephen