Re: opencdk under LGPL

[Timo Schulz]

Simon Josefsson wrote:

>> But some issues remain and need to be discussed.
> 
> Ok.  It seems bad if we duplicate code but slightly modify it.  Perhaps
> the code can be modularized in opencdk, so opencdk consists of one GPL
> part and one LGPL part?  Then GnuTLS could just depend on the LGPL part.

Actually, this is exactly what I proposed to Nikos. I guess it would
make sense to have a new build target to build the LGPL-part only.
And this stripped library could be directly used by GnuTLS, as you
also suggested.


> means gnutls is the only opencdk consumer in practice.  So maybe opencdk
> could just be merged with gnutls?

Well, the major problem with opencdk is, that it needs lots of changes
but my timetable does not permit this right now. Maybe the situation
will improve later and then I could do more "advertising".


        Timo