On Thu, 15 Nov 2007 09:00:56 +1100, Ben Finney
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In my view, the ideal solution from a reduce-licensing-headaches
perspective is to get all the code in a work licensed compatibly with
no need for exception clauses, either by relicensing some parts or by
replacing parts with
Marc Haber [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
The former [relicensing component parts under compatible licenses]
is not an option for OpenSSL (has probably been tried millions of
times)
Never say never; popular works do sometimes change licenses from
community pressure to be compatible. I haven't
On Fri, 09 Nov 2007 23:35:55 +0100, Josselin Mouette [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Le jeudi 08 novembre 2007 à 19:27 +0100, Marc Haber a écrit :
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Is it ok to change exim's SSL library to OpenSSL in the current setup
without violating the GPL for some of the library currently in use
It would be
Marc Haber [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
If both M and P were GPL with OpenSSL exception, but L were GPL
without OpenSSL exception, this linking would be a violation of L's
license?`By virtue of P linking to M and L and M linking to OpenSSL?
That's my understanding, yes.
This is why things like
This one time, at band camp, Marc Haber said:
Let me understand this in Theory. Given the following link tree:
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| program P |
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/ \
/ \
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Stephen Gran [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
This one time, at band camp, Marc Haber said:
If both M and P were GPL with OpenSSL exception, but L were GPL
without OpenSSL exception, this linking would be a violation of
L's license?`By virtue of P linking to M and L and M linking to
OpenSSL?
Stephen Gran wrote:
I have been under the impression that the answer is no. You're not
linking L to OpenSSL. It could be argued that this was an attempt at
defeating the GPL if P was a thin shim layer between L and OpenSSL,
but I don't think anyone can reasonably argue that for our default
Marc Haber writes (transitive GPL (exim4, OpenSSL, mySQL and others)):
(1)
Is it ok to change exim's SSL library to OpenSSL in the current setup
without violating the GPL for some of the library currently in use
You mentioned libpq and mysql. What other libraries are involved ?
All of the
On Fri, 9 Nov 2007 19:16:49 +, Ian Jackson
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Marc Haber writes (transitive GPL (exim4, OpenSSL, mySQL and others)):
(1)
Is it ok to change exim's SSL library to OpenSSL in the current setup
without violating the GPL for some of the library currently in use
You
Hi,
Le jeudi 08 novembre 2007 à 19:27 +0100, Marc Haber a écrit :
(1)
Is it ok to change exim's SSL library to OpenSSL in the current setup
without violating the GPL for some of the library currently in use
As you said, libmysqlclient and exim are OK with linking with OpenSSL.
The one
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