Re: [Gajim-devel] Licence incompatibility -- GPL and OpenSSL

2009-01-27 Thread Jonathan Schleifer
Am 27.01.2009 um 14:29 schrieb Yavor Doganov: [I submitted this as a Trac ticket, but got Submission rejected due to potential spam or similar.] I believe Gajim is currently not distributable, as even an optional dependency on python-openssl requires the license of Gajim to have the (in)famous

Re: [Gajim-devel] Licence incompatibility -- GPL and OpenSSL

2009-01-27 Thread Jonathan Schleifer
Am 27.01.2009 um 14:48 schrieb Jonathan Schleifer: d8289 Additionally, GPL explicitely allows mere aggregation, so even our Windows binaries are no See also: http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/msg/ 29c7588fbecproblem, as OpenSSL is a separate DLL which is loaded at runtime.

Re: [Gajim-devel] Licence incompatibility -- GPL and OpenSSL

2009-01-27 Thread Yavor Doganov
On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 02:48:45PM +0100, Jonathan Schleifer wrote: We do not ship with py-OpenSSL. We do not include any of the code from py-OpenSSL. I never said you did. I don't see where we are violating any license. You are violating your own license, the GPL. OpenSSL is loaded at

Re: [Gajim-devel] Licence incompatibility -- GPL and OpenSSL

2009-01-27 Thread Jonathan Schleifer
Am 27.01.2009 um 14:56 schrieb Yavor Doganov: On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 02:48:45PM +0100, Jonathan Schleifer wrote: We do not ship with py-OpenSSL. We do not include any of the code from py-OpenSSL. I never said you did. Then I fail to see the problem. I don't see where we are violating

Re: [Gajim-devel] Licence incompatibility -- GPL and OpenSSL

2009-01-27 Thread Yann Leboulanger
Yavor Doganov wrote: On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 02:48:45PM +0100, Jonathan Schleifer wrote: OpenSSL is loaded at runtime, but GPL doesn't cover which code is allowed to be run in memory, Please. All libraries you link against should be under a GPL-compatible license. The fact that you link

Re: [Gajim-devel] Licence incompatibility -- GPL and OpenSSL

2009-01-27 Thread Thorsten Glaser
Anfang der weitergeleiteten E-Mail: Von: Yavor Doganov ya...@gnu.org The problem is the linking. You can't link a GPL'ed application against a library under incompatible license, unless it classifies as a system library. You can, if you are not DISTRIBUTING the result of the linking. The