FreeTDS Development Group

[Steve Langasek <vorlon AT netexpress.net>]

On Sun, Mar 24, 2002 at 09:27:51AM -0500, Brian Bruns wrote:
> We seem to do new full releases about every 6 months, I guess.  Honestly, 
> there is not all that much new stuff in CVS.  Locale date support, and TDS 
> pooling configuration, but not much else.  I suppose we should put out a 
> 0.54pre1 release though.  I'd like to see a final goodread() patch before 
> doing that though.  Any takers?

I've taken the initiative here and commited a fix for goodread() to CVS.
You can shoot me later if you don't like it ;), but I didn't see any
objections to the last patch that was posted on the list, and it was
virtually identical to the patch I'd posted just the day before the
thread was brought up (modulo better EINTR handling).

Someone should still look at the best way to EINTR when select() is 
being used -- right now I've added no handling for this.  It's easy 
enough for me to throw in a '&& errno != EINTR' if people agree that 
won't cause any other problems; I just don't want that to become a "good 
enough" solution that never gets revisited.

> BTW, I've added a '--with-ssl' option to configure which will compile in 
> NT authentication support.

A note on this (hmm, this topic seems to be coming up everywhere these
days) -- because the OpenSSL license is not GPL-compatible (or more to
the point, LGPL-compatible), it's not legal for third parties to ship
freetds binaries linked against OpenSSL unless all copyright holders in
the FreeTDS code agree to adding a license exception allowing this.  For
Debian, I would definitely rather ship NT auth-enabled binaries; and to
that end, I hereby grant permission to licensees under the LGPL to link
any code I've contributed to FreeTDS against the OpenSSL library for the 
purpose of creating redistributable binaries.  In case we don't get the
same consent from all other contributors, I'll probably start looking at 
what would need to be changed to use the GNU TLS library instead.

Steve Langasek
postmodern programmer

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