Re: [Openvpn-devel] Amend OpenVPN license to allow continued mbed TLS support (allow mbed TLS 3.x linking)

2023-01-14 Thread Arne Schwabe
Also for platforms like Android, Windows and macOS we are shipping OpenSSL and mbed TLS ourselves since they are NOT provided by the system. Would I be correct in assuming that the "we" here isn't the openvpn project and is, in fact, some corporation that wants legal cover for its business m

Re: [Openvpn-devel] Amend OpenVPN license to allow continued mbed TLS support (allow mbed TLS 3.x linking)

2023-01-14 Thread James Bottomley
On Sat, 2023-01-14 at 21:34 +0100, Arne Schwabe wrote: > Am 14.01.2023 um 20:57 schrieb James Bottomley: > > On Sat, 2023-01-14 at 18:29 +0100, Arne Schwabe wrote: > > > Hey, > > > > > > This is the first round and will be only to the openvpn-devel > > > list. After that I will also write to indiv

Re: [Openvpn-devel] Amend OpenVPN license to allow continued mbed TLS support (allow mbed TLS 3.x linking)

2023-01-14 Thread Arne Schwabe
Am 14.01.2023 um 20:57 schrieb James Bottomley: On Sat, 2023-01-14 at 18:29 +0100, Arne Schwabe wrote: Hey, This is the first round and will be only to the openvpn-devel list. After that I will also write to individuals email addresses but I want to start with sending this to the devel list.

Re: [Openvpn-devel] Amend OpenVPN license to allow continued mbed TLS support (allow mbed TLS 3.x linking)

2023-01-14 Thread James Bottomley
On Sat, 2023-01-14 at 18:29 +0100, Arne Schwabe wrote: > Hey, > > This is the first round and will be only to the openvpn-devel list. > After that I will also write to individuals email addresses but I > want to start with sending this to the devel list. > > We are writing to you since you are o

Re: [Openvpn-devel] Amend OpenVPN license to allow continued mbed TLS support (allow mbed TLS 3.x linking)

2023-01-14 Thread Matthias Andree
Am 14.01.23 um 19:44 schrieb Arne Schwabe: Am 14.01.2023 um 19:35 schrieb Matthias Andree: Am 14.01.23 um 18:29 schrieb Arne Schwabe: We also considered going for a change from GPL2 to GPL2+ but we think that GPL3 would hurt the ability to distribute OpenVPN as part of router or other embedded

Re: [Openvpn-devel] Amend OpenVPN license to allow continued mbed TLS support (allow mbed TLS 3.x linking)

2023-01-14 Thread Arne Schwabe
Am 14.01.2023 um 19:35 schrieb Matthias Andree: Am 14.01.23 um 18:29 schrieb Arne Schwabe: We also considered going for a change from GPL2 to GPL2+ but we think that GPL3 would hurt the ability to distribute OpenVPN as part of router or other embedded devices as the GPL3 has been explicitly de

Re: [Openvpn-devel] Amend OpenVPN license to allow continued mbed TLS support (allow mbed TLS 3.x linking)

2023-01-14 Thread Matthias Andree
Am 14.01.23 um 18:29 schrieb Arne Schwabe: We also considered going for a change from GPL2 to GPL2+ but we think that GPL3 would hurt the ability to distribute OpenVPN as part of router or other embedded devices as the GPL3 has been explicitly developed (at least in part) to make this use case ha

[Openvpn-devel] Amend OpenVPN license to allow continued mbed TLS support (allow mbed TLS 3.x linking)

2023-01-14 Thread Arne Schwabe
Hey, This is the first round and will be only to the openvpn-devel list. After that I will also write to individuals email addresses but I want to start with sending this to the devel list. We are writing to you since you are or were a contributor in past to OpenVPN and we would like to ask