Re: [PATCH] Add support for OpenSSL's libcrypto as crypto backend

[Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>]

On Thu, 2010-04-08 at 19:16 +0100, Thomas Horsten wrote:
> For legal compliance and certification reasons it can be useful to use
> a specific cryptographic backend in a product with NetworkManager.

Unfortunately, it's illegal to combine OpenSSL with GPL code unless the
code has specifically added an OpenSSL exception (NetworkManager does
not have such an exception).  So while I greatly appreciate the work
that you've done, I feel very uneasy about accepting a patch that when
enabled, would make distribution of the result illegal :(

http://people.gnome.org/~markmc/openssl-and-the-gpl.html

Dan

> This patch adds support for using OpenSSL in addition to gnutls and
> nss. I have tested it using the supplied test suite in
> libnm-util/tests/test-crypto.c
> 
> Since the patch doesn't affect the functionality if the default
> cryptographic backend is used, it should be low risk to apply.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Horsten <thomas horsten citrix com>
> ---
>  configure.ac                |   12 +-
>  libnm-util/Makefile.am      |   11 ++
>  libnm-util/crypto_openssl.c |  346 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  3 files changed, 366 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>  create mode 100644 libnm-util/crypto_openssl.c
> 
> 
> 
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