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[Openvpn-devel,v1] Add a section about wolfSSL GPLv3 and point out missing TLS PRF support

Message ID 20251204124221.15206-1-gert@greenie.muc.de
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Series [Openvpn-devel,v1] Add a section about wolfSSL GPLv3 and point out missing TLS PRF support |

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Gert Doering Dec. 4, 2025, 12:42 p.m. UTC 
  From: Arne Schwabe <arne@rfc2549.org>

Change-Id: I4f9a6baf2bdb45e5b79bf13c9f6fce3b7a2e982c
Signed-off-by: Arne Schwabe <arne@rfc2549.org>
Acked-by: Gert Doering <gert@greenie.muc.de>
Gerrit URL: https://gerrit.openvpn.net/c/openvpn/+/1416
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This change was reviewed on Gerrit and approved by at least one
developer. I request to merge it to master.

Gerrit URL: https://gerrit.openvpn.net/c/openvpn/+/1416
This mail reflects revision 1 of this Change.

Acked-by according to Gerrit (reflected above):
Gert Doering <gert@greenie.muc.de>

Comments

Gert Doering Dec. 4, 2025, 2 p.m. UTC | #1 
Documentation improvements are always welcome :-)

Your patch has been applied to the master branch.

commit 603fe533a429e99f6b9e39304e0a1a0391af0547
Author: Arne Schwabe
Date:   Thu Dec 4 13:42:16 2025 +0100

     Add a section about wolfSSL GPLv3 and point out missing TLS PRF support

     Signed-off-by: Arne Schwabe <arne@rfc2549.org>
     Acked-by: Gert Doering <gert@greenie.muc.de>
     Gerrit URL: https://gerrit.openvpn.net/c/openvpn/+/1416
     Message-Id: <20251204124221.15206-1-gert@greenie.muc.de>
     URL: https://www.mail-archive.com/openvpn-devel@lists.sourceforge.net/msg34840.html
     Signed-off-by: Gert Doering <gert@greenie.muc.de>


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kind regards,

Gert Doering
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diff --git a/README.wolfssl b/README.wolfssl
index 3918d0f..3e531ae 100644
--- a/README.wolfssl
+++ b/README.wolfssl
@@ -28,7 +28,17 @@ 
  * blowfish support (BF-CBC), you must use something like
    cipher AES-128-CBC to avoid trying to use BF-CBC
  * Windows CryptoAPI support
+ * No TLS1.0 PRF support (No compaitbility with OpenVPN 2.5 or older or
+   other build that do not support TLS EKM)
 
+
+*************************************************************************
+Newer wolfSSL versions (5.8.2 and newer) are GPLv3 licensed and this license is not
+compatible with OpenVPN's GPLv2 license.
+
+However wolfSSL Inc has granted an exception to combine the wolfSSL library
+with OpenVPN and OpenVPN-NL (https://github.com/wolfSSL/wolfssl/blob/master/LICENSING)
+with version 5.8.4 and later.
 *************************************************************************
 To build WolfSSL with post-quantum KEMs built in, the following command is used: