Hi all, and sorry to jump it a bit late
simo wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-09-07 at 20:15 +0930, Dan Shearer wrote:
>
>> On Fri, Sep 07, 2007 at 08:13:42PM +0930, Dan Shearer wrote:
>>
>>
>>> There are two small doors that could be left open for the future: Bacula
>>> could implement "or later version" in its forthcoming modified GPL, and
>>> OpenChange could dual-license its work with, say, the GPL.
>
> OpenChange links directly with GPLed (no L) code so making a small
> portion LGPL will change nothing, the whole work will still be GPL.
>
> To the Bacula team, I'd like to make them aware that OpenSSL is not the
> only SSL/TLS library, there are also NSS and GNUTLS, both these
> libraries are licensed under the GPL (NSS it tri-licensed), currently
> v2, but I am sure they will be GPLv3 compatible soon.
>
> So if OpenSSL is the only piece that requires you to add exceptions (and
> therefore makes you incompatible with any other GPL code) then you can
> easily substitute it with NSS or GNUTLS.
>
IANAL, but as far as I know, adding a license exception to one's license
(i.e., "linking with this other license is explicitly allowed") does not
modify the license itself.
However, I do understand the point that other libraries that are to be
linked in are also being linked to the "incompatible" library ... Please
note that this is becoming more a philosophical problem than anything else.
As I see it: if it is my code which is linking in other people's
libraries, it's only my linking with each library which needs to be
fixed. As long as OpenSSL does not require being linked *with* (not:
alongside) other library, it should all be ok.
(again, IANAL)
> Moreover, NSS is certified at a higher level of security than OpenSSL,
> and recently in RH we made some work to make a compatibility layer to
> make it easier to port OpenSSL applications to NSS.
>
> It would be really nice if bacula could be GPLv2+ without exceptions, it
> would have access to a larger body of code and chance to use directly
> libraries like the ones from openchange or libsmbclient instead of being
> forced to run scripts and try to interpret output
In either case, thank you all for your efforts in creating the best
backup system ever
J.L.
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