On Fri, 2017-03-24 at 20:02 +0100, Florian Weimer wrote: > * Quanah Gibson-Mount: > > > Zero people that I know of are saying to switch to the GPL. What > > is being pointed out is that the incompatibility with the current > > OpenSSL license with the GPLv2 has been a major problem. > > The alleged incompatibility of OpenSSL with the GPLv2 has been used > to promote GNUTLS in the past (and to a much lesser extent, a certain > crypto consolidation effort intending to switch everything to NSS). > But GNUTLS has since left the GNU project, and I'm not aware of > anyone on the distribution side still saying that the old OpenSSL > license (particular when used as a dynamically-linked system library) > and the GPLv2 are incompatible. It's just not considered a problem > anymore.
This is my understanding as well. From the GPL side, for both dynamic and static linking of openssl to GPLv2 code, the section 3 system exception applies. James -- openssl-dev mailing list To unsubscribe: https://mta.openssl.org/mailman/listinfo/openssl-dev
