[OTR-dev] Reccomended version of libgcrypt? Libotr status messages.

[Ian Goldberg]

On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 10:43:30AM -0700, chris-tuchs at hushmail.com wrote:
> On Wed, 22 Jul 2009 05:21:53 -0700 Ian Goldberg 
> <ian at cypherpunks.ca> wrote:
> >On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 01:40:50AM -0700, chris-tuchs at hushmail.com 
> wrote:
> >> What version of libgcrypt is recommended?
> >
> >I'm still using 1.2.x, with the patch on the OTR website to fix 
> >the key generation problem:
> >
> >http://www.cypherpunks.ca/otr/rndw32.diff
> >
> >But 1.4.4 still seems to be LGPL:
> >http://hpux.connect.org.uk/hppd/hpux/Gnu/libgcrypt-
> >1.4.4/readme.html
> >
> >Were you looking at GNUtls, perchance?  That's GPL3, I think.
> 
> I was reading the FSF website not the source code.
> 
> http://directory.fsf.org/project/libgcrypt/

I see; the reason seems to be that there are helper programs (gcryptrnd
and getrandom) that are GPL, but the library itself is LGPL.

   - Ian