On Tue, Oct 10, 2006 at 11:06:35AM +0200, Tanguy Krotoff wrote: > Gianluca Sforna wrote: > >The topic of removing OpenSSL from the codebase was raised several > >times in the past. > >Let me sum up the reasoning (and correct me where I'm wrong) > > > >1. the license is incompatible with the GPL > > This could be worked around with an exception to the OW license > > We can change the license by adding: > "As a special exception, Wengo gives permission to link this program > with the OpenSSL Library." It was done this way for classic >
No, this is already done, but does not solve the problem, because this special exception does not make the qt license compatible with the openssl one. The problem is that we don't have the power to relicense the qt library... > >3. OpenSSH is used by owcurl (which, BTW, I would _really_ like to see > >disappearing as well) > > this means we need to replace openSSL with something compatible with it > > >So, the natural choice would be gnuTLS, but it seems that it can not > >build on Windows (I am not sure if the build was actually tried, and > >with which compiler) > > Exactly gnuTLS under Windows is a really big unknown. > For example under Windows GAIM does not use gnuTLS but the stuffs from > Netscape (that are obsolete by the way). > > One thing is sure: supporting OpenSSL under Windows + gnuTLS under Linux > is quite complex and time consuming. > Why? -DUSE_GNUTLS (without -DUSE_SSLEAY and -DUSE_OPENSSL) is enougth to convince owcurl to compile with gnutsl, then the only other place to tune is wifo/httptunnel. Ciao -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- | Marco Nenciarini | Debian/GNU Linux Developer - Plug Member | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.prato.linux.it/~mnencia | --------------------------------------------------------------------- Key fingerprint = FED9 69C7 9E67 21F5 7D95 5270 6864 730D F095 E5E4
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