Re: [Savannah-register-public] [task #4754] Submission of Scriptable ftp

[Sylvain Beucler]

Hi,

On Tue, Oct 11, 2005 at 01:44:11PM -0300, Davidlohr Bueso Arnett wrote:
> OpenSSL has a GPL incompatible license, but since it is optional in your
> program it can pass, but it must remain this way. I recommend you change to 
> GNUTLS

It's not valid, even optionnaly, to link code released under the GNU
GPL and code under the license used by OpenSSL.

There are 2 solutions to work around this issue:

- use GNU TLS instead (note: it also has a mostly complete
SSL-compatible interface)

- if you are the copyright holder of all the code that is released
under the license incompatible with OpenSSL's, then you can add an
exception to your license to allow linking with the OpenSSL library -
and doing so, you prevent yourself from include GNU GPL'd code that
you do not own to your project.

-- 
Sylvain