On 11/27/2013 05:46 PM, Dan Williams wrote:
On Wed, 2013-11-27 at 09:27 -0700, Jerry James wrote:
> The second option is gnutls, which is various flavors of GPL and LGPL,
> and so is fine for us. We did have one developer wonder why gnutls is
> preferred over openssl, though. Can anyone answer that question?
You answered that just below; because OpenSSL is GPL incompatible.
Since gnutls is LGPL, it can be used in most places openssl can be used,
*plus* it can be used with GPL software.
If I understand
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=986347
correctly, gnutls 3.x can no longer be used by GPLv2-only code.
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Jiri