On Nov 22 19:55, Brian Dessent wrote: > 2. I linked against GNUTLS instead of OpenSSL. This eliminates a nasty > potential GPL issue, which is detailed at > <http://curl.haxx.se/legal/licmix.html>. Essentially, the situation is > that OpenSSL+libcurl is fine license-wise, but if someone then tried to > link that libcurl to a pure GPL app they'd be in violation of the GPL > because of its incompatibility with the BSD advertising clause of > OpenSSL. A lot of GPL programs have the "openssl exception" for this > very reason, but libcurl can't count on that. It's probably not an > issue right now for Cygwin, but it just seemed easier to me to ignore > the potential problem and use GNUTLS. GNUTLS doesn't support everything > that openssl does, but the things it lacks (like the ancient SSLv2) seem > to be relatively minor corner-cases.
It's not an issue for Cygwin and in theory I'd prefer if you could link curl against OpenSSL. OTOH, GNUTLS would be a fine additional package for Cygwin, too (*hint, hint*). Where is the GNUTLS package? I don't see it in your list of packages. Since you linked curl against it, the package should be provided anyway. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat, Inc.
