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[gnutls-dev] Re: gnutls vs. openldap problems
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Simon Josefsson |
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[gnutls-dev] Re: gnutls vs. openldap problems |
Date: |
Thu, 11 Aug 2005 12:19:33 +0200 |
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Matthias Urlichs <address@hidden> writes:
> Hi,
>
> oenldap2 no longer compiles against gnutls.
>
> The reason are the gnutls_x509_extract_certificate_* functions.
> They now only are in gnutls-openssl, which contains GPL code and thus
> cannot be linked with openldap2. Worse, the license in libextra/openssl.c
> changed from LGPL to GPL.
>
> Please consider reverting this and moving this code from libextra/ to lib/.
Hi. Sounds reasonable, except if there is a problem with those APIs.
They look rather useful to me though. Nikos, do we want to promote
other APIs now? In the same file, there is also
gnutls_x509_verify_certificate, I wonder if it is good.
Thanks,
Simon