Re: openssl vs. GPL question

2005-06-10 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
Michael K. Edwards wrote: You might also observe the comments at http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=6924 and http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=8508 regarding MySQL's retreat, first from providing OpenSSL-enabled binaries, and then from referencing OpenSSL in the server source code. Any bets on

Re: openssl vs. GPL question

2005-06-10 Thread Michael K. Edwards
On 6/10/05, Anthony DeRobertis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Michael K. Edwards wrote: You might also observe the comments at http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=6924 and http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=8508 regarding MySQL's retreat, first from providing OpenSSL-enabled binaries, and then from

Re: openssl vs. GPL question

2005-06-10 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
Michael K. Edwards wrote: P. S. If you think that an FSF vendetta against OpenSSL would be an anomaly, or that RMS is purist about copyright law when it comes to his own conduct, you might be interested in Theo de Raadt's comments at

Re: openssl vs. GPL question

2005-06-10 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
Michael K. Edwards wrote: On 6/6/05, Michael K. Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Whoops, I misattributed that message. It's Brett Glass who wrote that, NOT Theo de Raadt. :-( And after Googling Brett Glass briefly, I doubt he has much concrete evidence to back up his claim that RMS

Re: Re: openssl vs. GPL question

2005-06-10 Thread Regis Boudin
Hi everyone, On 6/4/05, Dafydd Harries [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a package Alexandria, written in Ruby, which will depend on a new library in the next version. This library, ruby-zoom, is an LGPL Ruby binding of libyaz. libyaz links to OpenSSL and is, as far as I can tell, under a

Re: openssl vs. GPL question

2005-06-07 Thread Gervase Markham
Michael K. Edwards wrote: Do you know whether the NSS implementation is being certified at source code level (a very unusual arrangement) using the sort of maneuvers mentioned in the Linux Journal article on DMLSS? I'm not able to say - it's not my area. If you are interested,

Re: openssl vs. GPL question

2005-06-06 Thread Humberto Massa Guimarães
De: Steve Langasek [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] The phrase For an executable work, complete source code means all the source code for all modules it contains appears in the text of GPL section *3*, which is not specific to works based on the Program. Such lack of attention to license detail from

Re: openssl vs. GPL question

2005-06-06 Thread Michael K. Edwards
You might also observe the comments at http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=6924 and http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=8508 regarding MySQL's retreat, first from providing OpenSSL-enabled binaries, and then from referencing OpenSSL in the server source code. Any bets on whether there was a quid pro

Re: openssl vs. GPL question

2005-06-06 Thread Michael K. Edwards
On 6/6/05, Gervase Markham [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The implementation of SSL in the Netscape NSS libraries is available under the GPL, and I believe certain versions of it have FIPS validation. http://www.mozilla.org/projects/security/pki/nss/fips/ I'm delighted to hear that. It does not

Re: openssl vs. GPL question

2005-06-06 Thread Michael K. Edwards
On 6/6/05, Michael K. Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: P. S. If you think that an FSF vendetta against OpenSSL would be an anomaly, or that RMS is purist about copyright law when it comes to his own conduct, you might be interested in Theo de Raadt's comments at

Re: openssl vs. GPL question

2005-06-05 Thread Arnoud Engelfriet
Michael K. Edwards wrote: since the OpenSSL shim for GNU TLS was added to the GPL (not LGPL) libgnutls-extra. (It's possible that it has since been moved into the LGPL portion, but I don't think so.) The LGPL contains an explicit provision that allows relicensing to GPL (section 3 LGPL).

Re: openssl vs. GPL question

2005-06-05 Thread Steve Langasek
[Cc:ing the original poster, who posted to -mentors -- there's no reason to expect that he's subscribed to -legal] On Sun, Jun 05, 2005 at 11:04:13AM +0200, Måns Rullgård wrote: On 6/4/05, Dafydd Harries [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a package Alexandria, written in Ruby, which will depend