[rtmpdump] Link OpenSSL statically for Win32
Stef
my.my.cro at gmail.com
Mon Apr 19 14:51:48 CEST 2010
On 19/04/2010 8:53 PM, David Woodhouse wrote:
> On Mon, 2010-04-19 at 20:15 +0930, Stef wrote:
>
>> Unfortunately, "hashswf.c" and "rtmp.c" in the "librtmp" use the
>> OpenSSL stuff too, don't they? So that puts a damper on anything
>> using the librtmp library as well unless it's built to use the dynamic
>> DLL.
>>
> Those files are licensed under LGPL, not GPL. So there is no problem
> with linking to OpenSSL.
>
> But still, as I said, they can be built to use GnuTLS instead of
> OpenSSL. And then _even_ the GPL-licensed tools like rtmpdump can be
> statically linked quite happily.
>
>
Agreed.
Howard should put a note in the README/COPYING pointing out the issue
with distributing Windows (Mac too?) versions of rtmpdump and
static-built OpenSSL. E.g: It can only be re-distributed as long as the
executable is built to use the OpenSSL dynamic-link-libs (personal use
is fine with static-built OpenSSL) or GnuTLS (static or dynamic).
Either that or drop OpenSSL entirely and just use GnuTLS exclusively.
Regards,
Stefan Zakarias.
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