On 4/13/06, Tyler MacDonald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ted Mittelstaedt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > An end user can download freeradius and postgresql and openssl and > > build all of them and link them together, without violating any licensing > > clauses. > > End users aren't expected to know how to use build tools or even > have them installed on their system. Developers and distributors are > expected to possess that knowledge. That's why distributors exist in the > first place.
Developers who work for organizations that benefit from GPL'd software, who make changes to that software, and who use it within their organization are not required to make any source available. The only thing that the GPL prevents them from doing is releasing a binary version without any equal-access source code opportunity to people outside the organization. > > > I don't understand how changing something that isn't broken > > (the OpenSSL license) is being progressive. And you want to > > talk about being less obstructive, start with the GPL. > > You've just done it again: claimed the OpenSSL license doesn't have > a problem just because the GPL has one too and the GPL's might be bigger. There is a problem with the OpenSSL license, and in my head it's MUCH larger than any that the GPL has -- the fact that it's released under a additive-dual license instead of an or-dual license makes it a hassle to try to figure out just what needs to be written into what docs, where. I have an open-source project. It may be compiled with or without OpenSSL support. If someone compiles it with OpenSSL support, I'm required to put two (perhaps 3) statements in its documentation. If they don't, if I put those statements in the documentation, I'm misrepresenting the source of some of the code. The "obnoxious OpenSSL advertising clause" is a threat to any project which has an option of either compiling against and linking to the OpenSSL libraries or foregoing the OpenSSL support. -Kyle H ______________________________________________________________________ OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org User Support Mailing List openssl-users@openssl.org Automated List Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED]
