It's not really appropriate to say "without any licensing". It's really more appropriate to say "without paying any license fees". A license to the software is offered to you (and to anyone/everyone), with no need to transfer any payment, as long as you do not violate the terms of the license. If you do violate the terms of the license, you are in breach of copyright.
The license conditions are simple: In your documentation, you must give credit to Eric A Young, and you must give credit to the OpenSSL project. In addition, you may need to give credit to Tim Hudson (if you use Windows-specific code from it). The specific quotes you must place in your documentation are included in the license file. You must also, if you advertise any feature of your product that relies on cryptographic software or TLS software, place in your advertisements the same text. And that's it. http://openssl.org/source/license.html is the text of the license, which I'm paraphrasing here. Aside from that, as long as you adhere to and accept the license you can take the source code, compile it, and use it in any way you like (subject to your country's import, export, and cryptography-usage laws). Subject to your acceptance of the license, you could include the binary you compile with an app you distribute, or use it for internal business commercial purposes. You could take the source code and redistribute it in uncompiled form. You could do just about anything you want with it. All you have to do is place the quotes contained in the license, giving the credit in your documentation and your advertising. -Kyle H On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 10:29 PM, gaurav khanna <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello Sir/Madam, > This mail is regarding the use of openssl for commercial purpose. > We have some quries regrding the same which are as follows: > 1) As its written on the OpenSSL website that its Apache-style licence which > means free to be used for Commercial usage, so can we use it for our > products for commercial purpose without any licensing. > 2) What kind of "some simple license conditions" as required as its not > clear from the website. > > We dont understand these Apache - style licence term also. > > We will be very thankfull to you if u can provide us help on the above > things. > > Thanks and regard, > Gaurav Khanna ______________________________________________________________________ OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org User Support Mailing List openssl-users@openssl.org Automated List Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED]
