Re: Password management applet

[Michael LeMay <lemaymd lemaymd com>]

dsr tao merseine nu wrote:

>On Wed, Sep 21, 2005 at 08:54:30AM -0500, Michael LeMay wrote:
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>>   I am currently working on a C panel applet to satisfy these 
>>requirements that makes use of the OpenSSL cryptographic library and the 
>>Berkeley DB library.  I decided against storing passwords in 
>>gnome-keyring because I'd like the password database to be easily 
>>portable to other machines, desktops, and operating systems.  I intend 
>>for this application to store all passwords, basically taking the place 
>>of the GPG-encrypted file some people manually maintain, or the paper 
>>sticky notes I suppose a few people still use.  I'm actually developing 
>>a command-line client along with the panel applet to support this usage 
>>model.
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>It sounds like a good idea. However, have you checked the
>licensing on OpenSSL? You might want to read
>http://www.gnome.org/~markmc/openssl-and-the-gpl.html
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>-dsr-
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Thanks for the tip, I had never noticed that part of the OpenSSL
license.  I personally prefer OpenSSL to GNU TLS (less established) and
Mozilla NSS (much more complex and less commonly available).  Since I
hold the copyright for all the code I've produced so far, I think this
may still work if I include the wording described in that document.  I
guess I should ask though, what are the conceivable consequences if I
make a licensing mistake somewhere?  I certainly don't want to be
responsible for any suit against Gnome. :-)