Apache license is fine for me, while GPL could be problematic. Incompatibility with GPLv2 is not a problem for us.
If it is a problem for somebody - feel free to explain the details. Though I think the decision has been made, and the majority is OK with it. Regards, Uri Sent from my iPhone > On Mar 23, 2017, at 22:27, Quanah Gibson-Mount <qua...@symas.com> wrote: > > --On Friday, March 24, 2017 1:37 AM +0000 Peter Waltenberg > <pwal...@au1.ibm.com> wrote: > >> >> OpenSSL has a LOT of commercial users and contributors. Apache2 they can >> live with, GPL not so much. >> There's also the point that many of the big consumers (like Apache :)) >> are also under Apache2. >> >> Least possible breakage and I think it's a reasonable compromise. Of >> course I am biased because I work for the one of the commercial users. > > Zero people that I know of are saying to switch to the GPL. What is being > pointed out is that the incompatibility with the current OpenSSL license with > the GPLv2 has been a major problem. Switching to the APLv2 does nothing to > resolve that problem. As has been noted, the current advertising is a huge > problem with the existing license. One of the reasons that has been a big > problem is that it makes the license incompatible with the GPLv2. So on the > one hand, getting rid of that clause is great. On the other hand, getting > rid of it by switching to the APL is not great, because it doesn't resolve > the fundamental problem of being incompatible with the GPLv2. > > As was noted back when this was brought up in 2015, there are other, better, > licenses than the APLv2 which are also GPLv2 compatible. The MPLv2 being an > example of such a license. There is also BSD, MIT/X11, etc. The GPLv2 > incompatibility of OpenSSL is a major problem. > > --Quanah > > -- > > Quanah Gibson-Mount > Product Architect > Symas Corporation > Packaged, certified, and supported LDAP solutions powered by OpenLDAP: > <http://www.symas.com> > > -- > openssl-dev mailing list > To unsubscribe: https://mta.openssl.org/mailman/listinfo/openssl-dev
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