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

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From: Joerg Mayer <jmayer@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 4 Jun 2004 11:03:21 +0200
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
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Joerg Mayer                                           <jmayer@xxxxxxxxx>
We are stuck with technology when what we really want is just stuff that
works. Some say that should read Microsoft instead of technology.