Comment on Chrome: From NSS to OpenSSLComments−gioele12ySerious question: why is GnuTLS very often not considered as an alternative to OpenSSL?−leccine12yOne but really important reason: https://gitorious.org/gnutls/gnutls/source/39aaa63a1a4cb8432...vs.http://www.openssl.org/source/license.html−runeks12yAlso, it uses `strlen` and `strcat` on binary data: http://www.openldap.org/lists/openldap-devel/200802/msg00072...−gioele12yGnuTLS is LGPL 2.1+: https://gitorious.org/gnutls/gnutls/source/39aaa63a1a4cb8432... not GPL 3 as that file seems to imply
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Serious question: why is GnuTLS very often not considered as an alternative to OpenSSL?
One but really important reason: https://gitorious.org/gnutls/gnutls/source/39aaa63a1a4cb8432...
vs.
http://www.openssl.org/source/license.html
Also, it uses `strlen` and `strcat` on binary data: http://www.openldap.org/lists/openldap-devel/200802/msg00072...
GnuTLS is LGPL 2.1+: https://gitorious.org/gnutls/gnutls/source/39aaa63a1a4cb8432... not GPL 3 as that file seems to imply