On Mon, 2012-05-28 at 13:14 +0200, Ralf Jung wrote: > > > * 6. Redistributions of any form whatsoever must retain the following > > * acknowledgment: > > * "This product includes software developed by the OpenSSL Project > > * for use in the OpenSSL Toolkit (http://www.openssl.org/)" > > > > I don't see the relevance of ยง6. You're linking to a copy of OpenSSL in > > shared library form which already exists on the system; you aren't > > redistributing it in any form. So that should be a non-issue, surely? > > From what I understood - but that's not very much - the problem is simply > that > this is a restriction, while the GPL forbids all kinds of restrictions.
It's not a restriction unless you are redistributing OpenSSL, which nobody here is doing. > > That said, I'm working on porting to GnuTLS anyway. > That's good news. Let me know if I can help testing :) It'll be a while; there's a lot to be done and I don't have a lot of free time for it at the moment. If anyone else is interested in working on it, I'd be happy to hand off my work-in-progress and my vague notes on what else needs doing (past the basics of actually making it compile). -- dwmw2
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