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Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] openssl license


From: Yavor Doganov
Subject: Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] openssl license
Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2009 19:39:28 +0200
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Nicodemo Alvaro wrote:
> 
> What I was not understanding is would the GiVMi project maintainer
> have to get the approval of those projects to use Openssl. 

The problem only exists for dynamic linking with GPL libraries.  LGPL
is OK.  (And of course you can't copy-paste any LGPL/GPL code without
the copyright holders' permission, unless it already has the OpenSSL
exception.)

> What uses GnuTLS?

The C library, libgtk-vnc.  The python extension python-gtk-vnc links
with it so it links indirectly with libgnutls.




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