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Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Linking against OpenSSL

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From: "Ronnie Sahlberg" <ronnie_sahlberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 4 Jun 2004 19:30:36 +1000
Have you looked at
Gnutls and/or Nettle?

Maybe they can be useful in getting rid of openssl



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Joerg Mayer"
Sent: Friday, June 04, 2004 7:03 PM
Subject: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Linking against OpenSSL


> On Thu, Jun 03, 2004 at 03:42:06PM -0400, Devin Heitmueller wrote:
> > At this point, I'm debating just writing the code with OpenSSL and
> > distributing a patch against Ethereal on my website.  Then anyone who
> > wants the functionality can get the patch, apply it against the Ethereal
> > source and recompile.  This would get around the license issue, at least
> > as far as I can see, since nobody would be distributing a "combined
> > product".
>
> Maybe you could have a look at GPLed vpnc, whose author had to solve the
> same problem: http://www.unix-ag.uni-kl.de/~massar/vpnc/
>
>  Ciao
>      Joerg
> -- 
> Joerg Mayer