Eric,
OpenSSL has become an almost universal component in servers and
operating systems. Unfortunately, GPL types don't like linking against a
product that has an advertising clause (go figure).
I'd like to see this war end. I don't think removing the advertising
clause from SSLeay and OpenSSL would be admitting defeat, or even really
doing anything bad. Everybody *knows* what openssl is nowadays, it doesn't
need to be advertised anymore.
Things are going in two directions right now with GPL projects; some
products are modifying their GPL to add a special exemption to allow linking
against OpenSSL. Other products are moving to GnuTLS instead. Other projects
get left in the middle, breaking the "law".
And it's not always even that simple: for example, the freeradius
project's postgresql plugin links against the postgresql client library
(naturally). Postgresql may or may not link against OpenSSL. If it does,
then the freeradius-postgresql plugin is breaking the GPL's rules, but how
the postgresql client library was compiled isn't neccessarily under
freeradius's control.
I think that these programmers could be more happy and productive
and get back to moving our planet forward if they didn't have to spend so
much time thinking about licensing issues, coding around the problem, etc.
Can you please, please consider removing this requirement from the next
version of SSLeay's license, so that OpenSSL can follow suit, so that we can
go back to solving the *real* problems instead of all this legal mumbo
jumbo?
Thanks,
Tyler
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