[Pkg-openldap-devel] Bug#647460: Bug#647460: Bug#647460: slapd: README.Debian.gz mentions obsolete note about GnuTLS and OpenSSL

[Luk Claes]

On 11/02/2011 10:53 PM, Quanah Gibson-Mount wrote:
> --On Wednesday, November 02, 2011 10:40 PM +0100 Rolf Kutz <rk at vzsze.de>
> wrote:

>> README.Debian.gz mentions obsolete note about GnuTLS and OpenSSL:
>>
>>   Finally, note that the Debian OpenLDAP packages have been compiled
>>   against GnuTLS instead of OpenSSL to avoid licensing problems for
>>   GPL-covered packages that use the LDAP libraries.  This is a supported
>>   configuration, but it's not widely used outside of Debian.
>>
>> Since 2.2.23-0.pre1 slapd is build against OpenSSL.
> 
> I assume you mean this very last sentence is poorly worded?  It is
> definitely correct and current that Debian uses GnuTLS rather than
> OpenSSL for theoretical licensing issues.

Was there any thought on providing two versions of the ldap libraries:
one build against OpenSSL and one against GnuTLS (similar to libcurl)
which would give people a choice and would not force everyone to the
GnuTLS one like today?

Cheers

Luk