On Sun, 10 Jan 1999, Anonymous wrote:
> "Ralf S. Engelschall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > The original license of SSLeay says you cannot change the license
> > for it. Ok, but it allows modifications. And those modifications
> > can be put under a different license, of course.
>
> According to copyright law, modified versions of a work may not
> be distributed without permission of the copyright holder.
RTFL:
(from SSLeay-0.9.0b's COPYRIGHT file)
- Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
- modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions
- are met:
- ...
> If
> the copyright holder writes that modifications are permitted but
> the code cannot be put under another distribution license, you
> may distribute modifications only under the terms of the original
> license. Of course if, say, C2Net had acquired the right to
> distribute versions of SSLeay under a license of its own or EAY
> agreed to it being distributed under the OpenSSL license, that would
> be perfectly ok.
The license does not appear to make any restrictions on
modifications as long as the original license is preserved.
Regards,
Damien Miller
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