Re: OpenSSL and the GPL: License problems

On 12/23/2011 07:29 AM, Heinrich Müller wrote:
> Heinrich Müller posted on Mon, 19 Dec 2011 16:18:29 +0000:
>
>> Duncan posted on Mon, 19 Dec 2011 12:45:13 +0000:
>>
>>> Heinrich Mueller posted on Mon, 19 Dec 2011 13:18:37 +0100 as
>>> excerpted:
>>>
>>>> 1. NNTP isn't dying afaik, as I'm a regular binary downloader.
>>>
>>> I guess that bit should have been in quotes.  I wasn't saying it was
>>> dying, but rather, that many others say it is.
>>>
>>> (I'd simply say that eternal september wasn't so eternal after all.
>>> Now that not everyone and their brother gets news via their ISP, it can
>>> again flourish, out of the limelight.)
>>>
>>>> 2. I knew of this problem long ago, and I'll be revamping the SSL
>>>> stuff to use GnuTLS in the near future.
>>>
>>> Cool. =:^)
>>
>> Writing this from the ugly inbred gnutls/openssl child.
>> Should be done after xmas or newyear. Right now it's just a bit hacked
>> together but seems to work.
>>
>> Cheers.
>
> I'm done :D

Thanks Heinrich :)

I see you've required gnutls=3.0.9.  Is that restriction really necessary,
or could I use 2.10.5 instead?  My linux distribution has masked gnutls-3.x
because of insufficient testing.  I could hack around that restriction if
I really need to, of course ;)