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Re: Bug#374132: ITP: tntdb -- C++ class library for easy database access



This one time, at band camp, Kari Pahula said:
> On Sat, Jun 17, 2006 at 03:46:11PM +0300, Kari Pahula wrote:
> > * License         : GPLv2 or later
> 
> >  Currently has support for MySQL, PostgreSQL and SQLite.
> 
> And PostgreSQL links to openssl, which is GPL incompatible.  Sigh...
> I'll investigate what could be done about this.

If it's a transitive link, is that really an issue?  With newish linker
features, you don't get a NEEDED line for libssl unless you actually
use it's symbols in your app.  I'm not sure, but how far down the tree
of recursive linking is this an issue for?
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