Re: WolfSSL and Netatalk
On Sunday, June 23rd, 2024 at 6:35 AM, Bernd Zeimetz <bernd@bzed.de> wrote:
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>
> Hi,
>
> > A few days ago, we released Netatalk 3.2.0 which comes bundled with a
> > customized subset of WolfSSL as SSL provider.
> > However, when I spoke to a Debian developer last year about this very
> > topic, they told me that using WolfSSL for packaged software in
> > Debian required some kind of special exemption and approval.
>
>
Hi Bernd,
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> wolfssl is packaged in Debian, did you try to build netatalk with the
> packaged version?
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> Debian doesn't like code copies in sources, so if it builds fine with
> the packaged version, removing it from the source that ends up in
> Debian will fix all issues.
>
This is a reasonable request. I did try to build with Debian's WolfSSL libraries last year.
At the time (September 2023) I concluded that the DES compatibility headers (des.h etc.) were missing altogether from Debian's WolfSSL package, and therefore could not be used for this purpose with Netatalk.
Some discussion in https://github.com/Netatalk/netatalk/issues/358
> (I didn't check for licence compabilites and such things, guess you've
> done that already).
>
All of the original WolfSSL codebase is GPLv2 licensed, which is the same license that Netatalk uses.
However, a handful of source files (five of them to exact) are licensed under the traditional SSLeay license.
They constitute key parts of the OpenSSL compatibility layer...
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> Hope that helps,
>
> Bernd
>
It helps very much, thank you!
Sincerely,
Daniel
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