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Re:PolarSSL – Does anyone have any experiences with this Ope... by karavelov on Friday April 11, 2014 @09:25AM (#7572676)
I have no experience with PolarSSL but it is under GPL so unless your code is under GPL also it is a no-starter. I suppose this is a major obstacle for wider adoption.
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Re:PolarSSL – Does anyone have any experiences with this Ope... by cryptodude on Friday April 11, 2014 @10:39AM (#7573094)
They have a standard FOSS License Exception allowing you to use it with all the regular Open Source licenses..

Link: https://polarssl.org/foss-license-exception

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Re:PolarSSL – Does anyone have any experiences with this Ope... by teacup50 on Friday April 11, 2014 @09:49AM (#7572780)
PolarSSL forked from BSD-licensed XySSL (no longer maintained) in 2008.

It would make some sense to backtrack to the last BSD-licensed PolarSSL release and work from there.

There are some projects attempting to do so: https://gitorious.org/tropicssl

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Re:PolarSSL – Does anyone have any experiences with this Ope... by nly on Friday April 11, 2014 @11:17AM (#7573358)
It depends. The GPL doesn't have an effect if your software is never distributed outside of your organisation e.g. if it's only ever used server-side.
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Re:PolarSSL – Does anyone have any experiences with this Ope... by aroch on Friday April 11, 2014 @09:42AM (#7572748)
Its dual-licensed, you can use their non-GPL licensed code
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Re:PolarSSL – Does anyone have any experiences with this Ope... by teacup50 on Friday April 11, 2014 @09:45AM (#7572760)
The other side of the license is commercial.
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Re:PolarSSL – Does anyone have any experiences with this Ope... by noselasd on Friday April 11, 2014 @10:09AM (#7572905)
Which is normally not a problem if you're creating a commercial product. You can also get a license for FOSS projects if the GPL isn't suitable.
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Re:PolarSSL – Does anyone have any experiences with this Ope... by antocv on Friday April 11, 2014 @10:31AM (#7573033)
Oh so you want it for free? And without giving back your work to the public?

Oh.

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Re:PolarSSL – Does anyone have any experiences with this Ope... by scott_karana on Friday April 11, 2014 @12:39PM (#7573934)
Admittedly, OpenSSL's Apache license allows for that usage case, so it's technically a fair question when comparing alternatives.
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Re:PolarSSL – Does anyone have any experiences with this Ope... by postwait on Friday April 11, 2014 @12:02PM (#7573692)
Oh, yes.

Like all the code I've contributed with no reciprocation demanded.

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Re:PolarSSL – Does anyone have any experiences with this Ope... by antocv on Friday April 11, 2014 @05:44PM (#7575806)
Well then keep using those kind of licenses, and openssl, and we the others will gladly use GPL kind of licenses, and move to gnutls and/or polarssl.

This argument is old, BSD vs Linux old since the 1990s.

I guess you are using BSD kernels, runtimes and compilers on your phones and super-computers too?

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