Re: [PATCH] Add support for GnuTLS

Andrew Dunstan wrote:
> Tom Lane wrote:
> > FWIW, Red Hat's legal department thinks that the FSF has "overreached"
> > in claiming that the GPL is incompatible with OpenSSL's license.  Which
> > is why Red Hat isn't worrying about GPL apps that use OpenSSL, of which
> > there are quite a few ...
> >
> >
> I'm quite happy if we hang onto Red Hat's coat tails on this one.
>
> Do we use any GPL libraries other than libreadline? It would be nice to
> be able to get out of this game altogether - getting libedit up to
> scratch and portable would be very nice, and I know for a fact that
> commercial postgres vendors would welcome such a development.

Agreed, but FYI GnuTLS is LGPL, not GPL.

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