[haiku-development] Re: OpenSSL
- From: "François Revol" <revol@xxxxxxx>
- To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2008 19:53:55 +0200 CEST
>
> Duane Ryan wrote:
> > So I noticed a while back that someone (ingo, p'raps?) had ported
> > OpenSSL. This is great news--now things like https and ssh might be
> > possible. But I also noticed that it wasn't in the core
> > buildsystem. Why
> > is this? I feel like SSL support is at the *core* of every
> > operating
> > system, even if it wasn't in r5 (it might have been, I haven't
> > checked).
> >
> > So... at least have it be in there for R1, if not sooner? I'd hate
> > to see
> > Haiku R1 be insecure like that...
>
> As far as I know, Ingo is still hunting down bugs that prevent ssh
> from
> working. I think from there he will contibue with SVN, which is the
> last
> think preventing true self hosting. OpenSSL will probably come as a
> part of
> that.
>
> In any case, I would be pretty surprised if any developer here was
> against
> including OpenSSL and SSH and so on in the eventual first release. So
> I
> wouldn't worry.
>
Appart potential licencing issues (OpenSSL licence is GPL-incompatible
IIRC, but I'm not sure how that would affect a whole distro) there is
nothing against it I think.
François.
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