Hi, Maybe you should answer him? https://savannah.gnu.org/task/index.php?7673
Cheers, -- Sylvain On Thu, Jan 24, 2008 at 10:45:55AM +0100, Sylvain Beucler wrote: > Hi, > > On Wed, Jan 23, 2008 at 09:44:03PM +0200, Alexander Shulgin wrote: > > On Jan 22, 2008 9:29 PM, Sylvain Beucler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi Alexander, > > > > > > Exercise: Arkadiusz says he switches to 'GPL plus OpenSSL exception' - > > > can you see why this won't work? :) > > > > Hi Sylvain, > > > > Uh... not sure, but may be because redistribution still violates > > section 2.b) of GPLv2? > > The exception alone is ok (it's documented in the GPL FAQ after all). > > In this case though, his GPL'd code has the exception but other GPL'd > code (his dependencies) do not - so that violates the license of his > dependencies. > > > Alex > > PS: my disbelief in applicability of copyright to software is growing > > higher than ever... :-/ > > It seems to work ok with proprietary software. For free software, we > want something that works for "anyone, anywhere", so it's somewhat > more complicated. > > But here, it's rather that the openssl team made a terrible licensing > job :/ > > -- > Sylvain
