On Thu, 6 Sep 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
(As usual when talking license issues, don't take my words for legal advice
or anything, I am not a lawer.)
> 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.
Please especially note this section as written by David Turner:
> 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 I'm not mistaking, wget includes source code such as src/getopt.c which I
assume you can't add this paragraph to, and thus it cannot be linked with
OpenSSL...
It is also questionable of you can/should even change the boilerplate at all,
as very many people have contributed code to wget as a GPL-project. Adding
that exception will break compatibility with GPL and that may not be in the
same spirit as people have contributed code to.
Just my 2c. Ignore at will.
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