On Sat, Nov 23, 2002 at 01:57:17PM -0500, Chad Miller wrote: > However, _now_ there might be some possible legal problems with it. The > postgresql driver links against libssl, which has a license that forbids > linking against GPL'd code. > I'm CCing debian-legal list to get opinions on whether linking against libpg, > which then requires linking against libssl, is verboten. Indirect linking is still linking, and the GPL prohibits linking with code and distributing the binaries if the other code can't also be distributed under the terms of the GPL. Either the freeradius postgresql module cannot be distributed, or a version of the postgresql libs that don't link against libssl must be made available (either by stripping out ssl support, or by using gnutls). -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer
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