Re: [libmicrohttpd] Anyone wants openssl support in libmicrohttpd?

[Christian Grothoff]

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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