* Fwd: [ECOS] Re: PolarSSL for eCos
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@ 2013-05-02 12:56 ` Paul Beskeen
2013-05-02 14:47 ` Sergei Gavrikov
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From: Paul Beskeen @ 2013-05-02 12:56 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Sergei Gavrikov; +Cc: ecos-maintainers
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Sergei and other maintainers,
IANAL, but I don't think that the PolarSSL FOSS exception is that useful
in the eCos context - eCos itself might be OK is my read - but certainly
not any developer's proprietary embedded application that it is linked
with. I think you should carefully consider the licensing aspects here
before making this an official eCos project.
Regards, Paul.
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Subject: [ECOS] Re: PolarSSL for eCos
Date: Thu, 2 May 2013 14:14:31 +0300 (FET)
From: Sergei Gavrikov <sergei.gavrikov@gmail.com>
To: Max Seidenstücker <max.seidenstuecker@googlemail.com>
CC: eCos Discuss <ecos-discuss@ecos.sourceware.org>
Hi Max,
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On Thu, 2 May 2013, Max Seidenstücker wrote:
> Hi Sergei,
>
> I am writing you because I saw posts that you successfully ported
> PolarSSL to eCos already.
>
> For a research project we are currently using eCos and need a TLS1.2
> secured connection. So therefore we need to either update OpenSSL form
> 0.9.6b to 1.0.1, which seems pretty difficult or find an alternative
> SSL library.
>
> PolarSSL looks really promising, as it also has less ressource usage
> than OpenSSL.
>
> I am very curious on how far you have come with the porting.
That was a weekend hack only. As far I call correctly the porting
process was straightforward, that GPL PolarSSL version had a few I/O
stubs to overwrite and I have got HTTPS connection on eCos synthetic
target. I had no further work with PolarSSL (and SSL for eCos) but,
IMHO, the project was very promising SSL project ... and IT IS as
thanking your e-mail I knew that PolarSSL team became to provide FOSS
License Exception
https://polarssl.org/foss-license-exception
IANAL, but it looks like that we would use GPL PolarSSL 2.0 with that
FOSS exception in eCos. If this so, you would register new eCos project
http://ecos.sourceware.org/contrib.html
open eCos Bugzilla entry (http://bugs.ecos.sourceware.org) for the port
and I hope you will find more hands for porting process then. But before
to start I would get confirmation that PolarSSL FOSS License exception
does cover the eCos License exception.
Sergei
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