On Sun, May 6, 2018 at 8:39 AM, Sandro Tosi wrote: > I know there were issues linking with openssl, but i dont know if it's > still accurate, so i would like to ask the list: is it ok from a legal pov > to switch from gnutls to openssl for transmission?
The situation is currently unchanged, the OpenSSL license is incompatible with the GNU GPL family of licenses and an exception is needed to allow combining code under those licenses and OpenSSL in the same work. https://people.gnome.org/~markmc/openssl-and-the-gpl.html In the (very) near future, OpenSSL is planning to switch to the Apache 2 license, which is compatible with GPLv3 but not GPLv2. So code under GPLv3-only, GPLv3+ and GPLv2+ licenses will be compatible with the new license but GPLv2-only code will require an exception as before. The standard exception used for the current license looks like it will also be fine under the new license. https://www.openssl.org/blog/blog/2017/03/22/license/ https://license.openssl.org/ https://www.openssl.org/blog/blog/2018/03/01/last-license/ -- bye, pabs https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise
