-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Sam Johnston wrote: | Hi Victor, | | Thanks for updating the rdesktop package - I'm mostly settled in my | new home now and finally have the Internet back so I'm getting back | into development work - if you need a hand with it let me know.
I'll be glad if we can work together. I have no problem about that. | I see you have it listed under a 'Restrictive' license, per policy | (below), however rdesktop is acutally not published under the GPL, but | the GPL with an exception - effectively a different beast altogether. | This is specifically allowed by OpenSSL (see FAQ at | http://www.openssl.org/support/faq.html#LEGAL2) and was introduced in | response to similar issues with packaging for Debian. | | Quoting the rdkestop COPYING file: | This software is released under the GNU General Public License | (reproduced below) with the additional exemption that compiling, | linking, and/or using OpenSSL together with this software is | allowed. | | And the fink website: | 3.2 The GPL and OpenSSL | | (Policy change effective April, 2005.) | | Due to the apparent incompatibilty of the OpenSSL license with the GPL | and LGPL licenses, fink packages which link to openssl but are | licensed under the GPL or LGPL are marked as "Restrictive." As a | consequence, the Fink project will not distribute binaries of such | packages, although users are free to compile them from source at their | discretion. | | Package maintainers are encouraged to record the original package | license in the DescPackaging field. | | Cheers, | | Sam | Can we redistribute rdesktop? I'm not sure about the license. - -- Victor Seva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP Key ID: 0xDD12F253 jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.torreviejawireless.org http://linuxmaniac.homeip.net -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (Darwin) iD8DBQFDVj42S/DSSd0S8lMRAlCCAJwJWCrsE83N9ra8lVtUygeClFpBQgCdFdka exv+HBV8etYJ3anp6rUUNdU= =T7MF -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: Power Architecture Resource Center: Free content, downloads, discussions, and more. http://solutions.newsforge.com/ibmarch.tmpl _______________________________________________ Fink-devel mailing list Fink-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-devel
