tor 2003-02-13 klockan 04.21 skrev Don Armstrong: > [Mikael, I'm sending this query both to you and -legal, and setting > the Mail-Followup-To: on the assumption that you're not subscribed to > -legal as well. Please correct me if I have assumed incorrectly.]
That's correct. > What is the currently recommended method for adding a linking > exception (say with OpenSSL) to a program licensed under the GPL? > > I tried to find an example in the archives of a proper application of > an exception, however, I was unable to find it. [References to > applicable discussions appreciated.] > > Specifically, altering the GPL itself to add the exception seems to > clearly violate the copyright statement (underlined below) of the GPL > itself. > > I would gather that an addition to the copyright statement with the > stipulation given in multisync's 2(d) would be acceptable, but I'm not > aware of the precedence in cases like this. What I sent to Upstream (Bo Lincoln) was the following urls: http://www.openssl.org/support/faq.cgi#LEGAL2 http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2002/debian-legal-200212/msg00192.html And then he added it in 2d. He was very understanding, so if we want the phrase moved, I think that it's ok, but I think it's good if we could send him a sample och a license file. Lintian doesn't understand that it's not a plain GPL liccense, and give some warnings. Sincerely Mikael -- Mikael Andersson [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP: 1024D/20E93E8E 76F9 E895 1073 12B8 A281 8144 5A1E 4BDD 20E9 3E8E