Luke, I do not see how LGPL conflicts with linking against OpenSSL at all, and as I said if OpenSSL is part of the operating system it should fall under the OS-exception in the GPL.
RMS: what's the official FSF interpretation on this? Is there a problem with LGPL software (optionally, default will remain GnuTLS) linking against OpenSSL? The gnu.org-page simply says OpenSSL is "incompatible" GPL, but Gnome and others point to the OS exception. And this obviously says little about LGPL. On 11/05/2015 03:06 AM, Luke Dashjr wrote: > On Wednesday, November 04, 2015 11:30:37 AM Olaf Buddenhagen wrote: >> My employer considers implementing optional support for openssl as an >> alternative to gnutls in libmicrohttpd, as CoreOS apparently doesn't >> want to ship any SSL library besides openssl. So I need to solicit some >> feedback on whether anyone else would be interested in having openssl >> support? > > Note this would violate the LGPL license that libmicrohttpd uses, thus you > would be unable to legally distribute it without getting an exemption from > every copyright holder. > > Luke >
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