Re: [Lynx-dev] License incompability with new GnuTLS releases

[Thomas Dickey]

On Sun, 6 Jan 2008, Andreas Metzler wrote:

> 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+.

indeed (it certainly sounds as if they don't want anyone to use it)

> 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.

(I'll look into it - thanks ;-)

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