Re: [Openvpn-devel] Fwd: Re: comp-lzo and licensing issues

2003-05-03 Thread bishop
Matthias Andree wrote: If OpenSSL is in the base system of FreeBSD, then there shouldn't be any problem linking LZO with it. You could also allow OpenVPN binaries without LZO support (as I currently do in Debian). This will break compatibility and is no longer needed in the light of the special

Re: [Openvpn-devel] Fwd: Re: comp-lzo and licensing issues

2003-05-03 Thread Matthias Andree
> If OpenSSL is in the base system of FreeBSD, then there shouldn't be any > problem linking LZO with it. > You could also allow OpenVPN binaries without LZO support (as I > currently do in Debian). This will break compatibility and is no longer needed in the light of the special permission Markus

Re: [Openvpn-devel] Fwd: Re: comp-lzo and licensing issues

2003-05-03 Thread Alberto Gonzalez Iniesta
On Fri, May 02, 2003 at 06:07:07PM +0200, Matthias Andree wrote: > On Mon, 28 Apr 2003, Alberto Gonzalez Iniesta wrote: > > > Sorry for the huge forward, but everything needed to understand this > > problem should be there :) > > FYI: > > My post of the FreeBSD-ports mailing list how I should ha

Re: [Openvpn-devel] Fwd: Re: comp-lzo and licensing issues

2003-05-02 Thread Matthias Andree
On Mon, 28 Apr 2003, Alberto Gonzalez Iniesta wrote: > Sorry for the huge forward, but everything needed to understand this > problem should be there :) FYI: My post of the FreeBSD-ports mailing list how I should handle this license issue LZO <-> OpenSSL hasn't turned up anything in some days; s

Re: [Openvpn-devel] Fwd: Re: comp-lzo and licensing issues

2003-04-28 Thread bishop
Aaron Sethman wrote: On Mon, 28 Apr 2003, bishop wrote: So, what do we do? We write an exeption in a GPL-licensed project's software license? That only seems shady on the surface, like one's trying to exempt oneself from someone else's licensing - -I'd like to do that with MS. In fact, th

Re: [Openvpn-devel] Fwd: Re: comp-lzo and licensing issues

2003-04-28 Thread Aaron Sethman
On Mon, 28 Apr 2003, bishop wrote: > >> Of course another option here is to consider getting OpenVPN to play nice > >> with gnutls, though I am not familiary with the maturity of that piece of > >> software. > > Does anyone else here consider this to be entirely the wrong way to go? I'm not sayin

Re: [Openvpn-devel] Fwd: Re: comp-lzo and licensing issues

2003-04-28 Thread bishop
Of course another option here is to consider getting OpenVPN to play nice with gnutls, though I am not familiary with the maturity of that piece of software. Does anyone else here consider this to be entirely the wrong way to go? First off, the problem appears to be one that's present in all ca

Re: [Openvpn-devel] Fwd: Re: comp-lzo and licensing issues

2003-04-28 Thread Aaron Sethman
On Mon, 28 Apr 2003, Alberto Gonzalez Iniesta wrote: > Hi all, > > Sorry for the huge forward, but everything needed to understand this > problem should be there :) > > GPL software does not mix well with OpenSSL, and that's giving me some > headaches lately. As you me see in my mail to Markus (li

[Openvpn-devel] Fwd: Re: comp-lzo and licensing issues

2003-04-28 Thread Alberto Gonzalez Iniesta
Hi all, Sorry for the huge forward, but everything needed to understand this problem should be there :) GPL software does not mix well with OpenSSL, and that's giving me some headaches lately. As you me see in my mail to Markus (liblzo author) and James (we all know who he is :) linking liblzo wi