On April 21, 2002 06:02, Simon Josefsson wrote:
> staikos@kde.org (George Staikos) writes:
> >> - The Aegypten team has been contracted to develop _free_ software.
> >> OpenSSL isn't free.
> >
> >    This argument grows very old.  If you don't like putting the original
> > author's name in your application, write a replacement.  I wish we didn't
> > have to use OpenSSL but nothing else was available and usable at the
> > time. If you want to complain about something, how about that breaks BC
> > every release, is poorly documented and difficult to use, especially from
> > C++? Regardless, GnuPG does not (or at least did not previously) provide
> > fully functional SSL support.  OpenSSL provides SSL2/3, TLS, S/MIME, most
> > of the PKCS##, and all the lowlevel functions.
>
> There is GNU TLS <http://www.gnutls.org/>.  AFAIK, GPL is incompatible
> with the OpenSSL license, despite the FAQ on the OpenSSL site saying
> otherwise.

   That is not nearly sufficient.  We would lose functionality by using it.

    Furthermore, 
I_see_no_benefit_by_using_another_C_API_that_doesnt_have_many(&significant, 
*gains);

    I wrote the KDE SSL code, and I don't care about the state of the OpenSSL 
licence.  I don't have issues with the clause that says I must explicitly 
give credit to the original author of OpenSSL, which to my knowledge, is the 
only offending clause.




