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Re: CUPS is now linked against OpenSSL



Hi Ian,

On Sonntag, 12. Januar 2014, Ian Jackson wrote:
> The argument I would make (because I believe in it) is that lack of
> good cryptographic software is a bigger threat to the freedom of users
> than tivoisation (and, the other downsides of GPLv2 compared to v3).

absolutly agreed! Please go for it!

> I'm no fan of TLS but it is very unfortunate that we are considering
> further weakening security provisions in printing protocols, for
> example, because of this kind of licensing problem.
[...]
> For vaguely analogous reasons we (the free software world) try to make
> our codecs have very liberal licences.

also.


cheers,
	Holger


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