PostgreSQL, OpenSSL, and the GPL

Posted Feb 16, 2011 20:35 UTC (Wed) by jengelh (subscriber, #33263)
In reply to: PostgreSQL, OpenSSL, and the GPL by madscientist
Parent article: PostgreSQL, OpenSSL, and the GPL

>NSS has been blessed as the standard SSL library for LSB.

Being part of some standard won't magically proliferate it.

$ for i in mozilla-nss libgnutls26 libopenssl1_0_0; do rpm --test -e "$i" 2>&1 | pcregrep -o '(?<=$installed$ )\S+' | sort -u | wc -l; done
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..I still wait for the day until a "beautiful" API comes around. One that does not hide pointers behind, or use, typedefs, but rather ptrs to <incomplete> structs, does so in lower-case, and also has a prefix of sorts. No library fulfills all of these atm.

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PostgreSQL, OpenSSL, and the GPL

Posted Feb 16, 2011 21:18 UTC (Wed) by madscientist (subscriber, #16861) [Link]

See my above comment. I don't care how many different apps use it... why should that matter? Enough serious applications rely on it to ensure it's not overtly buggy and doesn't contain lots of silly security holes and that's all that's important. Having it part of LSB ensures it will be there, and it will be supported, and it will be backward compatible. That's absolutely critical for those who don't want to be forced to recompile their software for every given distro and distro version.

PostgreSQL, OpenSSL, and the GPL

Posted Feb 17, 2011 15:59 UTC (Thu) by lkundrak (subscriber, #43452) [Link] (1 responses)

[lkundrak@potwor ~]$ rpm -q --whatrequires libcrypto.so.10 |wc -l
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[lkundrak@potwor ~]$ rpm -q --whatrequires libnss3.so |wc -l
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PostgreSQL, OpenSSL, and the GPL

Posted Feb 18, 2011 1:23 UTC (Fri) by vonbrand (subscriber, #4458) [Link]

This is obviously only applicable to your specific packages installed