Re: [lwip-devel] [lwip-commits] [SCM] UNNAMED PROJECT branch, ppp-new, updated. aa2656cb9e8f6cdd7921fc36d5e00060065058a4

[Sylvain Rochet]

Hi Simon,


On Sun, May 20, 2012 at 08:14:33PM +0200, address@hidden wrote:
> 
> Are you sure we're allowed to use the PolarSSL code? A quick look at
> http://polarssl.org/licensing told me that the Open Source License
> for PolarSSL is GPL (v2) while lwIP is distributed under a BSD-Style
> license. The difference here is that we don't require anyone using
> lwIP in a product to unveil their source code (or even the lwIP
> source code), while GPL requires any source code linked to GPL
> sources to be made available to the public, too.
> 
> In short, we cannot include GPL code in our repository.

Ahh, of course, well I'm going to revert some changes and find a BSD-ish 
DES implementation somewhere :-)


> As a side note, I'm still looking for a decent open source SSL
> implementation for embedded webservers with a BSD-style licensed...

We don't really need a full SSL support, only some ciphers (MD4, MD5, 
SHA1) and encryption methods (DES), so we can live without.


Sylvain

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