> What is actually going on when the end-user runs OpenSSL and it
> dynamically links in your restricted library, or the end user compiles
> the unrestricted OpenSSL into your restricted library, is that they
> are committing a license violation of the OpenSSL license when
> they start using the resultant unified whole, because your license
> is going to require them to accept your license terms for the result of
> of whatever they link into. This is a violation of the OpenSSL terms
> on changing the OpenSSL license.
I wholeheartedly disagree. You cannot violate the OpenSSL license by
using
OpenSSL.
The end user is not creating a derivative work because he is not
creating a
work at all. For copyright purposes, you only create a work when you add
creative input. Compiling and linking is not a creative process.
IANAL, this is not legal advice.
DS
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