[Bug 359309] Re: mysql client package has broken SSL support

[Mathias Gug]

On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 10:26:31PM -0000, Bryan Jacobs wrote:
> That upstream bug looks likely to be the cause.  I don't use client
> certificates.  But regardless of the source of the error, shouldn't
> Ubuntu build its package in a way that works rather than one that
> doesn't?  OpenSSL is already installed on the stock system (even openssh
> relies on libssl) - does YaSSL provide some compelling advantage?  What
> rationale was there for building MySQL against an alternative library?

There are some licensing incompatibilities between openssl and GPL
software.

See http://www.gnome.org/~markmc/openssl-and-the-gpl.html for an
overview of the issue.

If you could describe a test case so that the bug can easily be
reproduced it would be very helpful to get this issue sorted out.

-- 
Mathias Gug
Ubuntu Developer  http://www.ubuntu.com

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