On Sep 7, 2007, at 7:03 AM, Dan Shearer wrote:
license to GPLv3. Note, even if our license were GPLv3 we could not use your code since the GPLed Samba code cannot be used with OpenSSL. Really sad.Well yes, except that as Simo pointed out OpenSSL is probably not what your users want in terms of security, and the alternatives don't come with clashing licenses.
OpenSSL is very mature, widely used, FIPS 140-2-certified, and includes broad crypto-functionality that is simply not available in libraries such as GnuTLS. It's not the prettiest code in the world, but it solves a complex problem, and the implementation has been fairly well vetted over the years.
That said, the Bacula network/data encryption is sufficiently abstracted such that it should be possible to replace OpenSSL with Mozilla's NSS.
However, I must state -- I simply want to write and share software, and I don't like choosing between Open Source Cryptography Libraries based on minute legal points, rather than technical merits.
-landonf
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