Re: [Fink-devel] the gpl and openssl

2005-03-14 Thread Chris Zubrzycki
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mar 14, 2005, at 5:09 PM, David Brown wrote: On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 04:15:21PM -0500, Benjamin Reed wrote: To me, it would seem kind of arbitrary for openssl 0.9.6 to be allowed, but 0.9.7 to not be just because we're building our own copy of it. W

Re: [Fink-devel] the gpl and openssl

2005-03-14 Thread Hanspeter Niederstrasser
Lars Rosengreen wrote: On Mar 14, 2005, at 1:02 PM, David R. Morrison wrote: Do we do this in stable/crypto at all? Did you happen to jot down the names of the offending packages in unstable/crypto? It would be a long list! Some examples that I found are xchat-ssl, wget-ssl, valknut-ssl, sylphee

Re: [Fink-devel] the gpl and openssl

2005-03-14 Thread David Brown
On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 04:15:21PM -0500, Benjamin Reed wrote: > To me, it would seem kind of arbitrary for openssl 0.9.6 to be allowed, > but 0.9.7 to not be just because we're building our own copy of it. > When Apple releases some future OS release with 0.9.7 on it, is it > magically OK suddenl

Re: [Fink-devel] the gpl and openssl

2005-03-14 Thread Lars Rosengreen
On Mar 14, 2005, at 1:02 PM, David R. Morrison wrote: Lars, Thanks for raising this issue. It has come up before, but it has perhaps not received the attention it deserves. My reading of the links you provided suggests that you are correct: we may not link GPL'd software against fink's openssl

Re: [Fink-devel] the gpl and openssl

2005-03-14 Thread Daniel Macks
On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 10:06:44PM +0100, David H. wrote: > > Personally i am _very_ unhappy with this nervousness about > Licensing. the GPL is not meant to inhibit what we are doing, nor is > it meant to make our work more complicated. [...] I will run this by our > lawyers tomorrow, Would it a

Re: [Fink-devel] the gpl and openssl

2005-03-14 Thread Benjamin Reed
David R. Morrison wrote: > My reading of the links you provided suggests that you are correct: we may > not link GPL'd software against fink's openssl package unless the license > explictly permits linking to openssl. (In many cases, there is an > alternative -- link to the system's openssl -- al

Re: [Fink-devel] the gpl and openssl

2005-03-14 Thread David H.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 David R. Morrison wrote: | Lars, | | Thanks for raising this issue. It has come up before, but it has perhaps | not received the attention it deserves. | | My reading of the links you provided suggests that you are correct: we may | not link GPL'd soft

Re: [Fink-devel] the gpl and openssl

2005-03-14 Thread David R. Morrison
Lars, Thanks for raising this issue. It has come up before, but it has perhaps not received the attention it deserves. My reading of the links you provided suggests that you are correct: we may not link GPL'd software against fink's openssl package unless the license explictly permits linking to

[Fink-devel] the gpl and openssl

2005-03-14 Thread Lars Rosengreen
I would like to figure out if it is ok for me to create a gpl'd package that links against fink's libssl. Looking in unstable/crypto, it looks like there are several packages that do this, yet I have read elsewhere that doing so violates the gpl because openssl's license is not compatible with