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Re: RFS: libssh - SSH and SCP library



Le vendredi 08 juillet 2005 à 06:46 +0900, Junichi Uekawa a écrit :
> > > 1. It's linking with openssl, and claiming to be LGPL, which 
> > >   I understand to be incompatible.
> > 
> > It is compatible.
> 
> Are you sure?
> People were running around GPL is not compatible with 
> openssl license; and LGPL has a option to make the 
> code GPL.

The point of the LGPL is to avoid such incompatibilities. If you can
link it with proprietary code, you can also link it to code under the
OpenSSL license.

That said, I think too we should favor libgcrypt, because it has a
lighter security record.
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