On Thu, Sep 29, 2005 at 02:31:00PM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > On Thu, Sep 29, 2005 at 02:37:35PM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote: > > On Sep 29, Domenico Andreoli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > to build something with libcurl, one has to install either > > > libcurl3-openssl-dev or libcurl3-gnutls-dev. the built package will > > > depend on libcurl3 (with openssl) or libcurl3-gnutls respectively. > > Why is openssl the default? > > I think everybody agrees that in the long period everybody will want to > > use gnutls, which is supposed to have the same features but does not > > have licensing issues. > > That's actually not true, GnuTLS has the reverse licensing issues from > OpenSSL. OpenSSL cannot be linked with GPL-licensed software; GnuTLS, > OTOH, is licensed under the GPL (as opposed to the LGPL), so cannot be > linked to applications that do not want to be distributed under the > terms of the GPL (or applications that have a GPL-incompatible license, > for that matter).
you are wrong, gnutls is licensed under LGPL. have a read at http://www.gnu.org/software/gnutls/. cu dom -----[ Domenico Andreoli, aka cavok --[ http://people.debian.org/~cavok/gpgkey.asc ---[ 3A0F 2F80 F79C 678A 8936 4FEE 0677 9033 A20E BC50 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
