Zak Greant wrote: > Hey MontyT, Greetings All, > > On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 5:23 PM, Monty Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> /me starts flame war... >> >> It's up for a very esoteric debate if openssl is merely linked to as a >> library installed separately on the system. However, as the original >> rights holder in this case (Sun) already has code in their version of >> this tree to link with openssl should it exist, it would be very hard to >> argue that they find it a violation of their rights under the GPL for us >> to also link against OpenSSL. > > No esoteric discussion or flame war required. :)
Darnit! What happened to the good ol days... :) > Unless OpenSSL is a standard part of all platforms we'll be shipping > on, then we have trouble. > > Drizzle is (or will be) a mix of GPL-licensed code where the copyright > is held by Sun and GPL-licensed code where the copyright is held by > third parties. While Sun might not object, other parties may. > > Let's be good about our licensing policies and respect the letter and > intent of licenses. Yeah. Ok... I can agree with that. This does beg a definition of platforms we'll be shipping on though... >> However... >> >> Anybody checked to see if GNU TLS has a decent md5 impl? > > This would be preferable. :) > > libgcrypt provides the md5 implementation that GNUTLS relies on. > > ftp://ftp.gnupg.org/gcrypt/libgcrypt > gcrpypt/gnutls vs. openssl ... which is more difficult to require on our gold-standard-for-we-can't-install-libraries... OS X? Monty _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~drizzle-discuss Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~drizzle-discuss More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
