Hi!

> At the moment I'm making a debian package for suspend/uswsusp. Suspend
> has an an option for encrypting which make use of the libssl library.
> Unfortunately linking libssl into an GPL application makes the
> resulting binary undistributable  (see [0] for more info.). Of course
> this is not a problem for people that compile and use suspend
> themselves, it is however a problem for distributions. You could
> provide a license exception of course, but then you'd have to convince
> all the copyright holders of vbetool, radeontool, lrmi, s2ram, etc.
> 
> Is there any reason you didn't use gnutls (GPLed alternative to
> libssl)? Would you accept patches if I try to port it to gnutls (no
> guarantees;)?

Probably yes... this is really a show stopper, not only for debian.

> Thanks for this nice software suspend implementation btw!

You are welcome.

                                                                Pavel
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