On 7/1/06, Roy T. Fielding <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
If we remove the patent-encumbered code from OpenSSL, then it isn't OpenSSL and we cannot distribute it or anything built from it under the TSU exception without distributing the source code exactly as built. That means we have to distribute the modified OpenSSL library as something else *not* called OpenSSL (because otherwise we are violating the OpenSSL license). In any case, none of our users want a modified OpenSSL -- they can download the real thing on their own. What we should be redistributing is a post-install DLL relinking tool so that they can link our windows binary with whatever they install for SSL, but I have no idea how.
Well, removing the patent encumbered bits is just a configure flag to OpenSSL. http://www.openssl.org/support/faq.html#LEGAL1 So, it doesn't require any code changes to the OpenSSL library itself - just how we'd build it. So, I don't see how that'd violate OpenSSL's license... -- justin
