On Tue, Apr 19, 2005 at 07:04:20PM -0600, Jamin W.Collins wrote: > 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
Any possibility of getting a OpenSSL linking exception for the GPL license of v1.4.4? It would really be a shame to have to remove SSL support from the Debian package. -- Jamin W. Collins Remember, root always has a loaded gun. Don't run around with it unless you absolutely need it. -- Vineet Kumar _______________________________________________ jdev mailing list [email protected] http://mail.jabber.org/mailman/listinfo/jdev
