[Kde-finance-apps] Brainstorming requirements for an Alkimia Quotes Backend: Feedback/Reality-Check Needed Please :)

Alvaro Soliverez asoliverez at gmail.com
Tue May 25 18:17:50 CEST 2010


On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 9:47 AM, Thomas Baumgart <thb at net-bembel.de> wrote:
> On Tuesday 25 May 2010 14:08:00 Alvaro Soliverez wrote:
>
> [...]
>
>> It has a BSD-license, which is open, but not quite easy to mix with
>> GPL code without a special exception. We went through such a problem
>> with OpenGPG and it was such a big deal Thomas had to use a whole
>> different library.
>
> Sorry, but I think I have to correct you here: it wasn't a license issue but
> rather a packaging issue with the PIM libs.  The part where we had trouble
> license wise was AqBanking being dependent on OpenSSL and us being dependent
> on AqBanking.  The problem in the end was solved by Martin converting
> AqBanking to use GnuTLS instead of OpenSSL.
>

I stand corrected, that was the issue I remembered. It was about the
time I joined KMM, so it's a bit foggy in my mind.
However, aren't we at risk of getting into a similar issue?


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