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[gnutls-dev] Re: libgwenhywfar and gnucash
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Simon Josefsson |
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[gnutls-dev] Re: libgwenhywfar and gnucash |
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Sun, 11 Jun 2006 08:42:54 +0200 |
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Thomas Bushnell BSG <address@hidden> writes:
> Andreas Metzler <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> On 2006-06-09 Thomas Bushnell BSG <address@hidden> wrote:
>>> Simon Josefsson <address@hidden> writes:
>> [...]
>>> > The OpenSSL emulation layer in GnuTLS is quite thin, and I wouldn't
>>> > recommend anyone to use it unless they have a very strong reason to do
>>> > so. I haven't seen a good reason here yet.
>>
>>> Debian has made extremely heavy use of it, because of the noxious
>>> license on openssl.
>> [...]
>>
>> Are you sure about that? On a quick search I have not found a single
>> major package in Debian using openssl compat. For example openldap2,
>> exim4, cups, samba all do not use the compatibilty layer but the
>> GnuTLS-API.
>
> lynx and ofx are the ones that come up on my system.
>
> I guess that doesn't count as "extremely heavy". It was the standard
> advice when we became aware of the openssl license problems that
> developers were advised to link against gnutls-openssl instead of
> ssl. It is good that this is minimally needed.
Right. And given how some parts of the OpenSSL API tend to change
over time, I think it will be difficult to implement compatibility
layers for all of it.
> The real question is not so much whether we have a compat layer, as
> much as we want gwenhywfar to be usable in GPL'd programs. ;)
Yup. And using the GnuTLS API directly will achieve that. ;-)
/Simon
- [gnutls-dev] libgwenhywfar and gnucash, Thomas Bushnell BSG, 2006/06/08
- Re: [gnutls-dev] Re: libgwenhywfar and gnucash, Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos, 2006/06/10
- Re: [gnutls-dev] Re: libgwenhywfar and gnucash, Thomas Bushnell BSG, 2006/06/10
- Re: [gnutls-dev] Re: libgwenhywfar and gnucash, Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos, 2006/06/11
- Re: [gnutls-dev] Re: libgwenhywfar and gnucash, Thomas Bushnell BSG, 2006/06/11
- Re: [gnutls-dev] Re: libgwenhywfar and gnucash, Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos, 2006/06/12
Re: [gnutls-dev] libgwenhywfar and gnucash, James Westby, 2006/06/10