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Re: OpenSSL license

 

> On 12 Jan 2016, at 23:48, Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> On 1/12/2016 4:01 PM, Martijn Kuipers wrote:
>> Hi,
>>> On 12 Jan 2016, at 19:49, Javier Serrano <javier.serrano.pareja@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Hi, the thread about libcurl made me think about a recent discussion I
>>> read about OpenSSL licensing. The OpenSSL license seems to be
>>> incompatible with GPL [1]. They do have plans to migrate to Apache 2
>>> [2], which is compatible with GPL, but they're not there yet.
>>> 
>> 
>> If it is just for libcurl, use libcurl-gnutls instead. 
> 
> Good luck with that on windows.  The MSYS2 project provides libcurl
> built against openssl.  I looked at the PKGBUILD file and there are
> variants defined for builds against gnutls and ntls but they are not the
> default and I have no idea if they will build or not or the gnutls
> and/or ntls will build.

You are right. Did not think of Windows or MSYS2. Never had any use for it, but 
KiCad should support it.

Sorry for the noise.

/Martijn

> 
>> 
>> /Martijn
>> 
>> 
>>> Cheers,
>>> 
>>> Javier
>>> 
>>> [1] http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#OpenSSL
>>> [2] https://www.openssl.org/blog/blog/2015/08/01/cla/
>>> 
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