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softened my opinions, added API benefit - Thanks to Eric Cooper
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@ -87,11 +87,7 @@ The Better License, Original BSD or LGPL?
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It isn't obvious or without debate to any objective interested party that
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It isn't obvious or without debate to any objective interested party that
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either of these licenses are the "better" or even the "preferred" one in a
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either of these licenses are the "better" or even the "preferred" one in a
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generic situation. In the Debian camp they frawn upon OpenSSL's BSD license,
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generic situation.
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but that seems to merely stem from the general FSF friendliness and GPL
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bigotry than based on a sane and proper analysis (assuming such a one is even
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possible within an area as filled with religion and personal preferences such
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as this). This is however not a subject suitable for this document.
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Instead, I think we should accept the fact that the SSL/TLS libraries and
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Instead, I think we should accept the fact that the SSL/TLS libraries and
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their different licenses will fit different applications and their authors
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their different licenses will fit different applications and their authors
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This concept works equally well both for shared and static libraries.
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This concept works equally well both for shared and static libraries.
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A positive side effect of this approach could be a more generic "de facto"
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standard API for SSL/TLS libraries.
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When Will This Happen
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When Will This Happen
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Note again that this is not a problem in curl, it doesn't solve any actual
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Note again that this is not a problem in curl, it doesn't solve any actual
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[6] = http://www.fsf.org/licensing/licenses/gpl.html end of section 3
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[6] = http://www.fsf.org/licensing/licenses/gpl.html end of section 3
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[7] = http://www.fsf.org/licensing/licenses/lgpl.html
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[7] = http://www.fsf.org/licensing/licenses/lgpl.html
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[8] = http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenSSL_exception
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[8] = http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenSSL_exception
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Feedback/Updates provided by
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Eric Cooper
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