[gnutls-dev] Re: libgwenhywfar and gnucash

Andreas Metzler ametzler at downhill.at.eu.org
Fri Jun 9 18:27:25 CEST 2006


On 2006-06-09 Thomas Bushnell BSG <tb at becket.net> wrote:
> Simon Josefsson <jas at extundo.com> writes:
[...]
> > The OpenSSL emulation layer in GnuTLS is quite thin, and I wouldn't
> > recommend anyone to use it unless they have a very strong reason to do
> > so.  I haven't seen a good reason here yet.

> Debian has made extremely heavy use of it, because of the noxious
> license on openssl.
[...]

Are you sure about that? On a quick search I have not found a single
major package in Debian using openssl compat. For example openldap2,
exim4, cups, samba all do not use the compatibilty layer but the
GnuTLS-API.
cu andreas
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