On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 8:56 AM, Benjamin R. Haskell <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Fri, 19 Mar 2010, James Vega wrote:
>
>> On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 12:50:36AM -0400, Benjamin R. Haskell wrote:
>> > > On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 7:22 AM, Ben Fritz <[email protected]>
>> > > wrote:
>> > > > Is this going to introduce any export law worries if included?
>> >
>> > My general thought would be that it would be much easier to include
>> > the patch if it could be reworked to use some commonly-available,
>> > external crypto library (thus Vim doesn't contain crypto software,
>> > so isn't exporting crypto). (e.g. use OpenSSL or ...well, OpenSSL.)
>>
>> There's also libgcrypt, which doesn't have OpenSSL's problem of being
>> GPL incompatible.
>>
>
> <offtopic class="IMO">For certain values of 'problem'. (my BSD-license
> preference reared its head apparently)</offtopic>
I don't disagree, but Vim is licensed in such a way that it can be
shipped under the GPL license. As such, we need to be aware of
potential incompatibilities.
> Googling { OpenSSL GPL } came up with this explanation:
> http://people.gnome.org/~markmc/openssl-and-the-gpl.html
> and the OpenSSL FAQ:
> http://www.openssl.org/support/faq.html#LEGAL2
Also, GNU's explanation:
http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#OpenSSL
> both of which are slightly hand-wavy about it. (Roughly: on most Linux
> and BSD distributions, it's okay, because it can be considered "an
> operating system library"; other systems, not as clear-cut.)
I find that argument to be a bit lacking as an ssl library is in no way
required for a working system. The "operating system library" exception
is meant for things like the C library.
Either way, the GPL also allows for exceptions so if using OpenSSL is
pursued, adding an OpenSSL exception is a viable option.
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James
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