[Pkg-kde-extras] Bug#669702: Patch to enable openconnect VPN plugin

Ralf Jung post at ralfj.de
Sat May 26 09:18:09 UTC 2012


Hi,

> Unfortunately it's not that easy.
> Linking against openssl requires a special exemption which I don't see
> granted for networkmanagement.
> So atm we can't enable this plugin.
> If only openconnect would have used gnutls...
> 
> [1] http://people.gnome.org/~markmc/openssl-and-the-gpl.html
Ouch, that's bad (I hate this lawyer stuff^^).
Only the openconnect vpn plugin directly links to OpenSSL - does it suffice 
for these few files to get a license exemption? The plugin is only loaded at 
runtime, not actually linked against the rest.

Kind regards,
Ralf





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