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Re: Bug#395961: gabber: Links with GPL-incompatible licensed OpenSSL



Em Ter, 2006-10-31 às 15:28 +0000, MJ Ray escreveu:
> cascardo@minaslivre.org wrote:
> > Wouldn't it be possible to link to libgnutls instead of libssl? It seems
> > that GNU TLS provides an API compatible with OpenSSL.
> 
> The compatible API is part of GNUTLS-EXTRA, which is also GPL.  See
> http://josefsson.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/gnutls/includes/gnutls/openssl.h?rev=1.20&root=gnupg-mirror&view=auto

You're right. And that would be no problem since all parts of the code
would be licensed under GPL. The problem having GPL code linked to
OpenSSL. Puting OpenSSL out of the way, the problem is gone.

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