2008/8/28 Juan Lang juan.lang@gmail.com:
Hi Dan,
One of my wild dreams is to create an LSB package for Wine. One of the many roadblocks is OpenSSL.
The only part of Wine that currently depends on OpenSSL is wininet. That could change if someone decides to copy that part of wininet to winhttp, but it shouldn't spread beyond that. We need to implement schannel at some point, as several apps depend on it, and I doubt Alexandre will accept an implementation that depends on OpenSSL. As long as we're talking about wild dreams, assuming someone ever implements schannel, wininet should be written on top of that, and the problem goes away. --Juan
For what it's worth, I've actually got part of a schannel implementation on top of gnutls. (Most of gnutls is LGPL, but eg. the OpenSSL compatibility is GPL)