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Re: GnuTLS considered harmful



--On Friday, February 22, 2008 6:08 PM -0800 Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu> wrote:

Quanah Gibson-Mount <quanah@zimbra.com> writes:

yaSSL may be another worthwhile alternative. It does have GPL licensing
as well.

GPL or LGPL? GPL is really bad from a distribution standpoint (even worse than OpenSSL's licensing, by a long shot). GnuTLS was LGPL, which was why it was an attractive choice.

GPL, but you can also release it under other licenses in various circumstances.


<http://www.yassl.com/flossException.html>

--Quanah


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Quanah Gibson-Mount
Principal Software Engineer
Zimbra, Inc
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