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 -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Suspend-devel mailing list Suspend-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/suspend-devel