Hi Rainer Am 21.06.19 um 12:36 schrieb Rainer Gerhards: > El vie., 21 jun. 2019 a las 12:03, Michael Biebl (<bi...@debian.org>) > escribió: >> >> Control: severity -1 wishlist >> >> Am 21.06.19 um 10:40 schrieb Peter Viskup: >>> Package: rsyslog >>> >>> Would it be possible to provide ossl rsyslog netstream driver as an package? >>> It is missing and would be great to have possibilities to choose between >>> two TLS drivers available (GnuTLS and OpenSSL). >>> Tried to build the package version 8.1901 for Stretch with no issues. >> >> The important question is why? >> What benefits does OpenSSL offer? > > - much better error messages - on GnuTLS we can usually emit only very > generic errors > - much less picky in regard to certificate file - we very often had > problems with GnuTLS here > > Our current mainstream recommendation is to use the openssl route as > it provides a much better user experience.
I see that parts of the code base are still GPL-3 (only) according to their license headers. And the combination GPL + OpenSSL is problematic afair, see https://people.gnome.org/~markmc/openssl-and-the-gpl.html Which is why avoided the use of OpenSSL where possible. Regards, Michael -- Why is it that all of the instruments seeking intelligent life in the universe are pointed away from Earth?
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