Re: [chrony-dev] Experimental NTS support

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On Wed, Jun 10, 2020 at 9:19 AM Miroslav Lichvar <mlichvar@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> On Tue, Jun 09, 2020 at 01:27:03AM -0700, Bill Unruh wrote:
> >
> > On Tue, 9 Jun 2020, Miroslav Lichvar wrote:
> >
> > > On Tue, Jun 09, 2020 at 12:21:41AM +0200, Vincent Blut wrote:
> > > > I must admit CVE-2020-13777 [1] has cooled me down a lot about GnuTLS.
> > > > OpenSSL 3.0 (currently in alpha stage) will use the Apache License 2.0 which
> > > > isn’t compatible with the GPLv2. Sigh, what a mess!
> >
> > Remember GPL3 is not compatible with GPL2.
>
> Right. We would need to relicense the code. That would require consent
> from Richard Curnow and all the contributors. If someone thought it
> was realistic and wanted to do all the work, I'd not be against it.

I've only found 14 contributors from grepping for copyright
statements, but there may be more. I think this is feasible, although
there may be other reasons why Boring/OpenSSL support isn't a
priority.

If we do do this GPL v3 or later might be worthwhile so we don't need
to do it in the future.

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