[Asterisk-Dev] gnu-tls

[Steven]

On Wed, 2005-07-06 at 18:35 +0100, Andrew McDonald wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 06, 2005 at 01:55:52AM -0500, Steven wrote:
> > On Wed, 2005-07-06 at 09:21 +0300, Tzafrir Cohen wrote:
> > > has anybody tried making Asterisk build with GNU TLS instead of openssl?
> > 
> > Please use google to look up the licensing wars that have taken place.
> >
> > Essentially the use of a GNU GPL tool would cause trouble for the code
> > base. Digium sells GPL waiver licenses for which you can link in non-GPL
> > code. Use of GPL code not disclaimed to Digium would hinder that option.
> > So only BSD or other less restrictive to the developer licenses need be
> > used.
> 
> Please use google to look up the licensing terms of GNUTLS. :-)
> 
> The core GNUTLS library is LGPL, not GPL.

I did, and if you think it is LGPL, maybe you need to notice this 
http://cvs.gnupg.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/gnutls/COPYING?rev=2.3&root=GNU+TLS+Library&view=markup

And if I look at a source file itself, I see GPL also.
http://cvs.gnupg.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/gnutls/src/common.c?rev=2.102&root=GNU+TLS+Library&view=markup

I would have been happy keeping quite if it was LGPL as I have no
technical knowledge that would be useful for a pro-con list of this
library vs, openssl.


-- 
Steven <critch at basesys.com>