Comment 8 for bug 195848
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| Michael Tänzer (neoatnhng) wrote Re: vpnc with Hybrid-Auth enabled? | #8 |
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The OpenSSL license and the GPL are incompatible (because of the advertising clause also known from the old BSD license). If you distribute software which contains GPLed code, you have to GPL this software too. As the OpenSSL license is incompatible we can't do this because we would not respect the license of the OpenSSL library and therefore would loose our right to distribute it. If we don't apply the GPL to the vpnc package we loose our right to distribute the GPLed part. So either way we can't do this.
There are two solutions which both require a fix from the vpnc project:
1) The copyright holders (i.e. each person who has contributed to vpnc) allow for a exception clause, stating that their software may be linked to the OpenSSL library
2) vpnc is rewritten to use another SSL library (e.g. GnuTLS)