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Re: curl status update



On Thu, 2005-09-29 at 14:31 +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 29, 2005 at 02:37:35PM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote:
> > On Sep 29, Domenico Andreoli <cavok@debian.org> wrote:
> > 
> > > to build something with libcurl, one has to install either
> > > libcurl3-openssl-dev or libcurl3-gnutls-dev. the built package will
> > > depend on libcurl3 (with openssl) or libcurl3-gnutls respectively.
> > Why is openssl the default?
> > I think everybody agrees that in the long period everybody will want to
> > use gnutls, which is supposed to have the same features but does not
> > have licensing issues.
> 
[snip]
> GnuTLS, OTOH, is licensed under the GPL (as opposed to the LGPL)
[snip]

Are you sure? http://www.gnu.org/software/gnutls/ says the core library
is LGPL. Maybe just the tools are GPL?

Ian.

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