I know we'd all hoped the licensing concerns with Jabberd 1.4.x would
be solved with the release of v1.4.4. However, it looks like there may
still be one more item. I've begun work on packaging the 1.4.4 release
and it looks like in order to package it for Debian, I'll have to
release the resulting packages and source under only the GPL v2 (which
means modifying each file to exercise the GPL only option) and due to
this build it without SSL support. As I understand it, a strictly
GPL'd application can not be linked against OpenSSL. Any chance of
getting a GPL exception from the copyright holders? I've done a
cursory check of the source for such and exception, but have not found
one currently.
Some links with more information this:
http://www.openssl.org/support/faq.html#LEGAL2
http://www.gnome.org/~markmc/openssl-and-the-gpl.html
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Jamin W. Collins
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