[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] libavformat: add mbedTLS based TLS

Rostislav Pehlivanov atomnuker at gmail.com
Mon Apr 23 22:33:16 EEST 2018


On 23 April 2018 at 20:16, Thomas Volkert <silvo at gmx.net> wrote:

>
> On 23.04.2018 11:27, Thomas Volkert wrote:
> > On 22.04.2018 20:03, Carl Eugen Hoyos wrote:
> >> 2018-04-22 20:00 GMT+02:00, Nicolas George <george at nsup.org>:
> >>> Carl Eugen Hoyos (2018-04-22):
> >>>> How do you detect that this is not the "current version" of mbed?
> >>> Is it really our responsibility?
> >> We try to always do it and I believe that allowing LGPL makes
> >> more sense and less headache: Since we do the checks so
> >> rigorously it makes sense to assume we did it as correctly
> >> for this case.
> >>
> >> I don't understand why we don't go the easy way that clearly
> >> has advantages instead for the complicated way (with at
> >> least some disadvantages).
> > Okay. I looked over their web page and the Debian packages again.
> > The web page of mbedTLS declares Apache license as the "primary open
> > source license".
> >
> > I will add it to EXTERNAL_LIBRARY_VERSION3_LIST and push it today, if
> > their are no further objections.
>
> pushed
>
> Best regards,
> Thomas.
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Sorry, had to revert, I'd still like to know what gains (disk space,
performance, maybe security-wise too if possible), this would have over
existing TLS libraries. Code-wise it looked fine.


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