OpenSSL 1.0.0 released [LWN.net]

OpenSSL 1.0.0 released

Posted Mar 30, 2010 20:30 UTC (Tue) by samroberts (subscriber, #46749)
In reply to: OpenSSL 1.0.0 released by foom
Parent article: OpenSSL 1.0.0 released

Most distros are chock full of GPLv2 licensed code, what is the problem here?

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OpenSSL 1.0.0 released

Posted Mar 30, 2010 20:58 UTC (Tue) by Darkmere (subscriber, #53695) [Link] (1 responses)

Libraries licensed under GPL-2 are somewhat bad and a problematic situation for distributors.

OpenSSL 1.0.0 released

Posted Mar 30, 2010 21:36 UTC (Tue) by foom (subscriber, #14868) [Link]

And we're not just talking about *any* old library here: SSL is used (many times indirectly) in
programs of just about every license imaginable. So, if you're going to choose an SSL
implementation to link against for another infrastructure library which is permissively licensed
(say, libldap, or libcurl), you really don't want to choose one which is only usable by GPLv2
programs.

BTW, insane thing I just noticed: gnutls is available under the LGPL, but gnutls' openssl
compatibility layer (libgnutls-openssl) is available under the GPL. Crazy...