Oops. I removed any windows binary compiled with OpenSsl support from my
site until further notice.
Heiko
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>Sent: Friday, September 07, 2001 1:29 AM
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: Wget license and OpenSSL license incompatible
>
>
>FYI, the GPL license that wget is shipped with is incompatible with
>the OpenSSL license. Below is a mail message I forward to the
>development mailing list for lftp and a response from
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] As far as I know, this only presents a problem when
>wget binaries linked against OpenSSL are *distributed*. The lftp
>author has modified the license to allow lftp (distributed under the
>GPL) to be linked against OpenSSL.
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >
> > I don't know the specifics but the following is included in the
> > license for fetchmail 5.8.17 (5.9.0 most recent version):
> >
> > Specific permission is granted for this code to be
>linked to OpenSSL
> > (this is necessary becuse the OpenSSL license is not
>GPL-compatible).
> >
> > Because lftp is GPL, I presume it is not legal to redistribute
> > binaries linked against OpenSSL. Any problems adding the
>above clause
> > to the lftp license to make it legal?
> >
> > BTW, according to:
> > http://www.fsf.org/licenses/license-list.html#TOCSoftwareLicenses
> > I believe the incompatibility is the result of the
>advertising clause
> > in the OpenSSL license.
>
>
> If you wrote LFTP and do not include or link against code from any
> other GPL'd source (except fetchmail or others with this
>permission),
> there is no problem with adding this to your license.
>
> If LFTP includes work from other GPL'd software, then you
>can't do this.
> In that case, you might want to consider rewriting OpenSSL using a
> GPL-compatible license. Or, I hear there's a way to use
>OpenSSL without
> linking to it.
>
> --
> -David "Novalis" Turner,
> Licensing Question Volunteer,
> Free Software Foundation
>
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>albert chin ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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