[gnutls-dev]Re: thoughts on the gnutls API
    Nikos Mavroyanopoulos 
    nmav at gnutls.org
       
    Sun Dec  1 22:50:01 CET 2002
    
    
  
On Sun, Dec 01, 2002 at 05:11:56PM +0100, Simon Josefsson wrote:
> >> Basically sounds good, however, isn't libksba GPL? Wouldn't this stop
> >> non-GPL-compatible applications using gnutls under its current LGPL
> >> license?
> > This is a problem. I didn't notice that at the begining. So,
> > at least for the time being, there will be no effort to use libksba.
> How about having the current X.509 implementation in libgnutls, and
> replacing the functionality with libksba in libgnutls-extra?
Sounds nice, but the idea was to avoid maintaining duplicate code. If
this approach is adopted, I'll have more sources to maintain, and this
is undesirable.
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Nikos Mavroyanopoulos
    
    
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