Hi, 2009/1/8 Tiger!P <[email protected]>: > Can everyone who has commited a change to Centerim, please reply to this > request? > > --- Forwarded message --- > Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2009 17:03:23 -0500 (EST) > Subject: License problems linking CenterICQ with OpenSSL > From: "Lubomir Rintel" <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Cc: [email protected] > Reply-To: [email protected] > > CenterICQ (and thus CenterIM) use OpenSSL for various functionality, but > the GPL forbids distribution of binaries resulting from linking the two. > See mikemc's writeup [1] for details. > > We would love to be able to include fully-featured binaries in Fedora. I > therefore kindly ask you, Konstantin, the copyright holder of CenterICQ > code, to add an exception to the CenterICQ license that would permit > distribution if binaries linked with OpenSSL.
There is also the possibility to use GNUtls instead of OpenSSL which, IMHO, is the best solution because it gives a message back to the OpenSSL guys: we don't like your licensing terms. But on the other hand I can understand the problems the Fedora guys are facing, so I'd like to hear from them the reasons (if any) they would like to prefer to use OpenSSL and change the licence instead of switching to GNUtls. I'd also like to hear what you think about this. I hope it is clear that I am not closing any options right now, even if I have a preference. -- Stéphane -- _______________________________________________ Centerim-devel mailing list [email protected] http://centerim.org/mailman/listinfo/centerim-devel http://www.centerim.org/
