FreeTDS Development Group

[Steve Langasek <vorlon AT netexpress.net>]

On Sat, Sep 28, 2002 at 04:18:43PM -0400, Castellano, Nicholas wrote:
> I have seen hints on Sybase's web site that OpenClient 12.5 supports SSL
> connections to the dataserver.  Maybe we should think about the potential
> consequences of removing OpenSSL support, before doing anything hasty.

> If the only issue here is that the same binary distribution can't contain
> both OpenSSL and readline, perhaps all we really need to do is:

> - Distribute tsql.c as it is, with an LGPL copyright
> - Add a notice to tsql.c and top-level README type files, stating that if
> you link tsql with readline, it will then fall under GPL because of the
> distribution terms of GNU readline
> - Add autoconf checks that disallow linking with OpenSSL and GNU readline at
> the same time.

> Does that resolve all the license conflicts, or did I forget something?

- You aren't violating any license if you create a binary for local use
  that links against both OpenSSL and readline, so autoconf is the wrong
  place for such a check
- sqsh, which is generally a much more useful tool than tsql, also links
  against readline, so it wouldn't benefit from any licensing checks in
  the FreeTDS source
- You can punt on the question of binary redistributability if you want
  to, but I'm representing Debian's interests here -- distributing
  binaries is our thing. :)  One way or the other, I need to either
  implement md4 and des_ecb under the LGPL, or I need to cripple one or
  more pieces of software in our archive to comply with the standing
  licenses.

Cheers,
Steve Langasek
postmodern programmer

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