On Sat, May 04, 2002 at 06:20:44PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > Getting the license changed seems pretty unlikely. There's "gnutls" > which is an SSL library that's being developed under the GPL, which GPL > programs can link to. Unfortunately non-GPL programs can't link to it, > so we've pretty much blocked ourselves off from being able to have a > single SSL/crypto library that all free software can use, which is a > shame. Unless someone starts up a third project, of course. Non-GPL programs can link with a GPL library, as long at the license is GPL compatible. I don't know how many GPL incompatible programs use SSL (a license field in the package description would be nice to find out :-). Looking at the homepage of GnuTLS it implements TLS 1.0, SSL 3.0 and a lot of other things. It looks like GnuTLS could replace OpenSSL. If there are a lot programs with GPL incompatible license, we could ask to license GnuTLS under the LGPL. Starting a third project just because of a license is stupid IMHO. Jeroen Dekkers -- Jabber supporter - http://www.jabber.org Jabber ID: jdekkers@jabber.org Debian GNU supporter - http://www.debian.org http://www.gnu.org IRC: jeroen@openprojects
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