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Re: [Fwd: [ANNOUNCE] NSS 3.1 Beta 1 Release]
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ben Laurie)
Tue Sep 19 10:08:38 2000
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Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2000 12:59:03 +0100
From: Ben Laurie <ben@algroup.co.uk>
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To: William Allen Simpson <wsimpson@greendragon.com>
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William Allen Simpson wrote:
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> I remember you expressing such sentiments on the mozilla security list some
> months ago. But, there are problems with the OpenSSL license.
As far as I can tell, the problems are invented rather than real. At
least I can't recall any real problems except "it isn't the licence we
want it to be".
> And not
> enough crossplatform support.
Gasp! What do you mean? Can you name a platform it doesn't run on?
> And, I'm a big believer in multiple
> independent implementations.
Of free software? That's silly.
To clarify: there may be a reason to have other implementations to
_test_ the "real" one, but there's no point in duplicating the massive
amount of work that has gone into optimising and porting OpenSSL.
Cheers,
Ben.
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