[ros-general] License issue with OpenSSL and ReactOS (GPL)

[Guido]

Another option is the Netscape Security System (NSS). An open source version is maintained by the Mozilla project. Have a look at the webpage for license details: http://www.mozilla.org/projects/security/pki/nss/

Guido


On Mon, 23 Feb 2004 10:50:09 +1300
Hey Matthew <Matthew.Hey at nbnz.co.nz> wrote:

> I've only used the OpenSSL (ironically in a 32bit DLL, called via thunking
> from a 16bit app...)
> but there is another project GnuTLS.
> http://www.gnu.org/software/gnutls/gnutls.html
> Obviously this is GPL, but I don't know much about this project.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Steven Edwards [mailto:steven_ed4153 at yahoo.com]
> Sent: Monday, 23 February 2004 10:29 a.m.
> To: ros-general at reactos.com
> Subject: [ros-general] License issue with OpenSSL and ReactOS (GPL)
> 
> 
> Hello,
> I am out of development for a few weeks but I have some ideas about
> using OpenSSL in ReactOS but we have one minor show stoppper. The
> OpenSSL license is not compatible with the GPL so any code that links
> to OpenSSL is going to need to be either LGPL or GPL with a exception
> for OpenSSL. We need to use OpenSSL in a few user-space dlls (wininet,
> rsabase, cryptoapi) and in our implementation of the security subsystem
> (lsass, ntoskrnl/se, samlib, etc). In the user-space stuff this isnt a
> issue as nothing is really implemented anyway but in the security
> subsystem side this may cause a problem because we already have some
> existing code. Can we license all of ReactOS as GPL and only license
> those files that directly link to OpenSSL as "GPL+Exception"? The is a
> problem because OpenSSL uses a BSD style advertising clause that is
> incompatible with the GPL.
> 
> Thanks
> Steven
> 
> 
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