Licensing issues with OpenSSL

[desiderantes]

As this project is licensed under GPLv2 only and uses OpenSSL, there is a license incompatibility 1 2 3

In order to be able to properly distribute this software, a different license is required. There are basically two options:

• Relicense to GPL2+ to be compatible with the future OpenSSL relicense to ASL2 (A rewrite to GnuTLS requires this too, as GnuTLS is effectively LGPL3+)
• Add an exception to the license to deal with the incompatibility.

Since licensing to GPLv2 only looks intentional, I guess option 2 would be preferrable.

[bboozzoo]

Thanks for bringing this up. The licensing stuff is confusing as usual. I suppose switching to GPLv2+ should not be much of a problem.

[rugk]

AFAIK you can also dual-license it. So just choose the second license, too, or so.