In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote:
> 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).
Also fine for me. Then I'll open an OpenSSL -> Related -> Applications
webpage where we can add those hyperlinks.
> 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 (but perhaps occasionally now a bit out of date).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.
I've already asked Tim about the FAQ but I've still not received
an answer on this.
Ralf S. Engelschall
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