Re: Fwd: PostgreSQL: WolfSSL support

From: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
To: Christoph Berg <myon(at)debian(dot)org>, Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Felix Lechner <felix(dot)lechner(at)lease-up(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Fwd: PostgreSQL: WolfSSL support
Date: 2020-06-27 12:56:38
Message-ID: 20200627125638.GA16644@momjian.us
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On Sat, Jun 27, 2020 at 02:50:27PM +0200, 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.

Uh, wolfSSL is GPL2:

https://www.wolfssl.com/license/

Not sure why we would want to lock Postgres into a GPL-style
requirement. As I understand it, we don't normally ship readline or
openssl.

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