[AWS] Features for the future

[Pascal Obry]

Florian Weimer writes:
 > > Could you give me a bit explanation about it ?
 > 
 > The OpenSSL license is not compatible with the GPL because of its
 > advertising clause.  As a result, it is not possible to distribute
 > binaries which contain both GPLed code (of which you aren't the
 > author) and OpenSSL code.  Now, for GNAT, things are a bit different,
 > I suppose, because AWS itself does not cause the resulting binary to
 > fall under the GPL (because of the GNAT-style exception), however
 > there are scenarios in which the compatibility problem shows up.  For
 > example, you cannot distribute a shared library based on AWS and
 > OpenSSL.

Well if you distribute a binary you just need to put somewhere in the
documentation of your application:

     "This product includes software developed by the OpenSSL Project
      for use in the OpenSSL Toolkit. (http://www.openssl.org/)"

and
     "This product includes cryptographic software written by
      Eric Young (eay@cryptsoft.com)"

Of course it would be better if we had a complete GPL or LGPL library but the
restriction with OpenSSL does not seems very annoying... But I'm not a license
expert so I could have missed something :) (see aws-1.0/doc/openssl.license).

Pascal.

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