Re: openssl.pc

[Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com>]

On 12 Feb 2003, Michael Meeks wrote:

> 
> On Wed, 2003-02-12 at 03:51, Kang Jeong-Hee wrote:
> > the openssl.pc itself is atrificial of redhat, not openssl.org.
> 
> 	ARGH - how is it that gnome-vfs is linking against openssl !?
> 
> 	That's a licensing nightmare surely ?
> 
> 	How did that happen ?

README.SSL says:

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I've implemented an SSL abstraction layer in libgnomevfs/gnome-vfs-ssl.c.
This currently uses OpenSSL but I'm planning to allow it to use NSS 
through a configure-time option. To turn it on pass 
--with-openssl-libs=/path/to/libs to configure or autogen.sh. However,

THERE ARE LICENSE ISSUES

There currently exists no SSL implementation thats compatible with the LGPL.
They all place extra restrictions on distribution. So for the time being I
recommend that no distributions distribute a gnome-vfs thats been built 
with SSL support.
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However, since late in the 2.2.0 cycle someone submitted a GnuTLS backend 
for this. Its currently checked in, but disabled. It needs integration in 
configure.in and testing, but looks like a good solution to license 
issues. (GnuTLS is LGPL.)

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