On Thu, 31 Dec 1998, Ralf S. Engelschall wrote:
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote:
> > Does the OpenSSL team also intend to adopt/coordinate the development
> > of the SSL client applications like SSLtelnet and SSLftp. Or are they
> > only interested in apache-ssl?
>
> > It would be a good idea to have some more people working on it and
> > using it.
>
> > What about other applications like pop, imap, news .. ?
>
> Hmmm... I personally think this area is too large to be covered by the OpenSSL
> project's core team itself. Because there are a lot of such programs which
> use SSLeay/OpenSSL. So, IMHO it's not reasonable to try to maintain and
> develop such applications by us directly. But what we perhaps can do is to
> provide the environment for others. For instance the KDE project provides the
> CVS tree for other KDE-application developers. We could at least create an
> openssl-apps sub-repository where the authors of the various SSL-related
> applications can host their stuff.
>
> What's the opinion of others on this topic?
I agree. But I think it would be sufficient to maintain a list of pointers
to software which can be linked against openssl (like there is in SSLeay's
FAQ).
Speaking of which, there is a lot of good information in the SSLeay FAQ
(but perhaps occasionally now a bit out of date). Um, I wonder if the FAQ
is "part" of SSLeay such that we can extend it for OpenSSL under the
standard arrangement? It refers to the standard SSLeay COPYRIGHT for
license and redistribution information, so I guess it would be ok as long
as we maintained the copyright notice for the original version.
Paul
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