On Wed, May 07, 2003 at 08:29:52AM -0000, MJ Ray wrote: > Christian Hammers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tue, May 06, 2003 at 07:27:12PM +0200, Andreas Metzler wrote: > >> Hmm, I think you've got a point, the "just add an OpenSSL exception to > >> the license" procedure doesn't work if other GPL'ed stuff > >> (mysql-server) is included. > > I wrote today with Lenz Grimmer who is the MySQL employee who cares > > about contact to the distribution maintainers. He told me that he will > > talk about licence issues with "David" from MySQL at the end of this > > week. > > Is gnutls a possible alternative for this yet? It shouldn't cause > licence problems.
Actually it does. GNU TLS's OpenSSL compatibility layer is licensed under the GPL, not the LGPL, last time I checked. This would cause problems for at least some works we distribute. -- G. Branden Robinson | The last Christian died on the Debian GNU/Linux | cross. [EMAIL PROTECTED] | -- Friedrich Nietzsche http://people.debian.org/~branden/ |
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