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[Lynx-dev] License incompability with new GnuTLS releases
From: |
Andreas Metzler |
Subject: |
[Lynx-dev] License incompability with new GnuTLS releases |
Date: |
Sun, 6 Jan 2008 16:54:55 +0100 |
User-agent: |
tin/1.9.2-20070201 ("Dalaruan") (UNIX) (Linux/2.6.22-3-amd64 (x86_64)) |
Hello,
lynx can optionally be linked against GnuTLS' openssl compability
wrapper library. The latest stable relases of GnuTLS (2.2.0) has a
changed license:
- Main library continues to stay LGPLv2.1+ (the "+" meaning "or (at
your option) any later version")
- OpenSSL compability wrapper and PGP support is now GPLv3+ instead of
GPLv2+.
lynx' license is GPLv2 (without the "or later"-clause).
Since now lynx and gnutls-openssl license are incompatible it will not
be possible to distribute binaries of lynx linked against
gnutls-openssl anymore. This is basically the same situation as with
OpenSSL. I guess changing lynx' license is not feasible due to huge
number of authors, therefore the only doable only solution I can think
of is to convert lynx to use GnuTLS' native interface.
cu andreas
http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#AllCompatibility
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- [Lynx-dev] License incompability with new GnuTLS releases,
Andreas Metzler <=