[Nut-upsdev] Announce: new team member (to work on Mozilla NSS port)

[Michal Hlavinka]

----- "Arnaud Quette" <aquette.dev at gmail.com> wrote:

> Dear fellows,
> 
> As you have probably seen, NUT has had a recent boost through the help
> of Eaton.
> 
> Frederic Bohe (contractor for Eaton France) has worked on Augeas, and
> is now working the Windows port.
> 
> Chetan Agarwal, seconded by Prashi Gandi (both from Eaton India) are
> working on XCP and quality / validation related projects.
> 
> I'm now pleased to announce that Emilien Kia (contractor for Eaton
> France) is joining the team to work on Mozilla NSS port.
> A branch (ssl-nss-port) was created some time ago to track the work on
> this topic.
> But now that we have somebody to work on it, we can expect result soon
> (around Christmas).
> 
> For the recall, the port from OpenSSL to Mozilla NSS will:
> - solve a major distribution isssue: since OpenSSL is licensed under
> BSD, some (most) Linux distributions were not able to ship NUT
> packages with SSL support enabled. NSS being available under 3
> licenses, among which the GPL, this will soon be an old story.
> - NSS is FIPS 140 certified, while OpenSSL is not. For more
> information on this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FIPS_140
> - finally, there is a move in Linux distributions, toward
> standardizing on NSS everything related to certificate management.
> That means in the end that Linux distro would be able to provide tools
> (textual and graphical) to manage a central certificates repository,
> which means easier tasks for the users.
> 
> Please join me into welcoming Emilien, and supporting the Eaton
> Opensource team ^_^
> 
> @Michal: I hope you will enjoy ;-)

great news! :)