SSL/TLS library comparison

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 02:20:49PM -0500, William Muriithi wrote:
> Just came across this link and it got me thinking, why is openSSL so
> popular than GnuTLS.  It looks like GnuTLS has way more features than
> openSSL?
> 
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_TLS_Implementations
> 
> Just being curious, not that I have any preference

Possibly openssl is much older, and it doesn't have the GPL viral issue,
although it does have the BSD 3 clause license issue along with the fact
it is covered by a lot of different licenses.

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