-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Tiger!P wrote: > 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] > > Hi, > > 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. > > If you agree with this, please consider using the wording found at the > bottom of Mike's writeup, or using a different license such as LGPL. > > [1] http://www.gnome.org/~markmc/openssl-and-the-gpl.html > > Thanks in advance! > > NB: This applies to CenterIM developers as well. Is there anyone with > notable contributions to CenterIM that would oppose this?
This is ok for me, I have contributed some cleanup code a long time ago. Håkan -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFJZkrlfu+aNIkyxzsRAtgrAKComOlXWtw774CRzPdytCQNl4tUsQCgg68D 2yd9LIYsV7/8yHDBXTYqz+8= =qgOl -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- _______________________________________________ Centerim-devel mailing list [email protected] http://centerim.org/mailman/listinfo/centerim-devel http://www.centerim.org/
