DC++

Em yes, I read that :) paragraph 1: "On many systems including the major Linux and BSD distributions" > OK, we're not talking about Linux/BSD, so this paragraph is not interesting. paragraph2: a) "Some GPL software copyright holders" > Now, who could that be? Jacek? cologic? The openSSL guys? b) "cl...

Sorry again, I didn't understand that statement. Do you want to say that you cannot incorporate openssl into dc++ because it's not allowed by the GPL?

Oh, now I get it. I should have asked before I used dc++ with stunnel.

Sorry, but what do you want to tell me? That the stumbling block in this matter is that there would need to be this additional statement ("with the additional exemption that compiling, linking, and/or using OpenSSL is allowed.") in the license.txt?

I actually thought it was adequate to post in the encryption thread...
The thing is, I'm not really posting about stunnel, but asking whether it's a big deal to incroporate the openssl toolkit into dc++

Hi all, I only recently discovered that the peer<->hub traffic, which carries the user names and passwords in plain text, can be encrypted quite easily with 'stunnel'. I never coded a line in c++, but may I ask the stupid question: "Is it such a big deal to incorporate the encryption functions that ...