Re: License issue with freeswan (Eric Young's libdes)

2002-09-12 Thread Steve Langasek
On Thu, Sep 12, 2002 at 10:41:24AM -0500, Rene Mayrhofer wrote: | What is needed here is a license exemption from the freeswan copyright | holders, granting permission to distribute binaries linked against | libdes. Is this enough ? Because of the advertising clause, would Debian be forced

Re: License issue with freeswan (Eric Young's libdes)

2002-09-11 Thread J.H.M. Dassen (Ray)
On Fri, Sep 06, 2002 at 13:23:28 +0200, Rene Mayrhofer wrote: Freeswan upstream developers are currently thinking of switch to openssl. I already pointed out to them that this might need a change in their own (GPL) license statement so that linking to openssl is explicitly allowed. Perhaps you

Re: License issue with freeswan (Eric Young's libdes)

2002-09-11 Thread Steve Langasek
On Fri, Sep 06, 2002 at 01:23:28PM +0200, Rene Mayrhofer wrote: The reason why freeswan can currently not go into main is an issue with some code license that is bundled with it. I am struggling with this for quite some time now and at the moment I need some help to clarify it Freeswan

Re: License issue with freeswan (Eric Young's libdes)

2002-09-11 Thread Rene Mayrhofer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Steve Langasek wrote: | Which parts of freeswan link against libdes? According to | /usr/share/doc/freeswan/copyright, some parts are LGPL. Do we know for | sure that libdes+GPL is happening? No, not for sure. However, since the copyright situation

Re: License issue with freeswan (Eric Young's libdes)

2002-09-11 Thread Joey Hess
Rene Mayrhofer wrote: Freeswan (the user space daemon and the kernel module) needs Eric Young's libdes to work. I know from researching for mindterm that version 3.06 of Eric Young's libdes (from 1993) was licensed under the GPL. I don't know how much the libdes library has changed since then,