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