Editing GnuTLS (section)

=== Origin ===
GnuTLS was initially created around March<ref>{{Cite web |date=2000-03-07 |title=Initialized repository for GNU TLS (8aef5fff) · Commits · gnutls / GnuTLS · GitLab |url=https://gitlab.com/gnutls/gnutls/-/commit/8aef5fff2e54b67c694fa4ef9190cbedf1ff00c1 |access-date=2023-06-23 |website=GitLab |language=en}}</ref> to November<ref>{{Cite web |date=2000-11-15 |title=gnutls0-0-4 · Tags · gnutls / GnuTLS · GitLab |url=https://gitlab.com/gnutls/gnutls/-/tags/gnutls0-0-4 |access-date=2023-06-23 |website=GitLab |language=en}}</ref> 2000,  by Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos to allow applications of the [[GNU Project]] to use secure protocols such as [[Transport Layer Security|TLS]]. Although [[OpenSSL]] already existed, OpenSSL's license is not [[License compatibility|compatible]] with the GPL;<ref>{{cite web | url = http://people.gnome.org/~markmc/openssl-and-the-gpl.html | title = The OpenSSL License and The GPL | date = 2004-06-22 | author = Mark McLoughlin | access-date = 2011-04-06 | df = dmy-all | archive-date = 2016-04-11 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20160411112314/https://people.gnome.org/~markmc/openssl-and-the-gpl.html | url-status = dead }}</ref> thus software under the GPL, such as GNU software, could not use OpenSSL without making a [[GPL linking exception]].