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Package: postgresql-client
Version: 8.3.12-0lenny1
Severity: serious
During a general conversation about readline licensing, I noticed that psql
links to both libreadline (GPL v2+) and libssl (BSD-like, incompatible with
the GPL), thus ending up with the terms of both licenses applying. My
reasoning is that since the licenses are incompatible with each other, the
binary is technically undistributable. The consensus on #debian-devel was that
this reasoning is correct.
Upstream claims that it should be possible to replace readline with libedit,
and I noticed that libeditline is another option. It would of course be
preferable to use one of those instead of disabling the functionality
completely.
I decided to file this against the version of the package in lenny, since it
in my understanding applies to all versions currently distributed by Debian
(the one in lenny being the oldest).
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Arto Jantunen
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Re: Arto Jantunen 2010-10-29 <[email protected]>
>
> Package: postgresql-client
> Version: 8.3.12-0lenny1
> Severity: serious
>
> During a general conversation about readline licensing, I noticed that psql
> links to both libreadline (GPL v2+) and libssl (BSD-like, incompatible with
> the GPL), thus ending up with the terms of both licenses applying. My
> reasoning is that since the licenses are incompatible with each other, the
> binary is technically undistributable. The consensus on #debian-devel was that
> this reasoning is correct.
>
> Upstream claims that it should be possible to replace readline with libedit,
> and I noticed that libeditline is another option. It would of course be
> preferable to use one of those instead of disabling the functionality
> completely.
>
> I decided to file this against the version of the package in lenny, since it
> in my understanding applies to all versions currently distributed by Debian
> (the one in lenny being the oldest).
This has been fixed ages ago, but somehow not all clones of this bug
were closed. Doing so now.
Christoph
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