Re: Any possibility of GPL-based license in the future?

2006-05-16 Thread Matt England
At 5/16/2006 09:55 AM, Bob Beck wrote: More importantely, as the ssleay license is more free (less restrictive) than the gpl it allows for OpenSSL's inclusion into things that can not use the GPL, due to it's restrictions. I agree that the ssleay license is more free (less

Re: Any possibility of GPL-based license in the future?

2006-05-16 Thread Richard Levitte - VMS Whacker
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Tue, 16 May 2006 10:17:35 -0500, Matt England [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: mengland At 5/16/2006 09:55 AM, Bob Beck wrote: mengland More importantely, as the ssleay license is more mengland free (less restrictive) than the gpl it allows for mengland OpenSSL's

Re: Any possibility of GPL-based license in the future?

2006-05-16 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Tuesday 16 May 2006 10:56, Brad House wrote: It's the GPL license that's broken, not OpenSSL. I believe the main reason that you cannot link with OpenSSL's license is because of the BSD with credit/advertising clause. the advertising clause was dropped from the BSD license a long time ago

Re: Any possibility of GPL-based license in the future?

2006-05-16 Thread Richard Levitte - VMS Whacker
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Tue, 16 May 2006 12:27:27 -0400, Richard Salz [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: rsalz As for BSD/advertising dicussions, the SSLeay license is rsalz characterized as BSD with copyright. It's not pure BSD, and rsalz so whether or not the current BSD license has an

Re: Any possibility of GPL-based license in the future?

2006-05-16 Thread Matt England
At 5/16/2006 04:03 PM, Jeffrey Altman wrote: Matt England wrote: So to reiterate the question that I should have probably clarified in my original email: Would OpenSSL have any interest in _adding_ GPL to their license offerings (along with the existing, ssleay-related license(s)) in a

RE: Any possibility of GPL-based license in the future?

2006-05-16 Thread David Schwartz
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] com on Tue, 16 May 2006 12:27:27 -0400, Richard Salz [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: rsalz As for BSD/advertising dicussions, the SSLeay license is rsalz characterized as BSD with copyright. It's not pure BSD, and rsalz so whether or not the current BSD license has

Re: Any possibility of GPL-based license in the future?

2006-05-16 Thread Richard Levitte - VMS Whacker
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Tue, 16 May 2006 14:31:46 -0700, David Schwartz [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: davids davids In message davids [EMAIL PROTECTED] davids com on Tue, 16 May 2006 12:27:27 -0400, Richard Salz davids [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: davids davids rsalz As for BSD/advertising

Re: Any possibility of GPL-based license in the future?

2006-05-16 Thread William A. Rowe, Jr.
Is it perhaps time for the project maintainers to author the definative Why OpenSSL is not GPL Licensed, and why it will not be (not argumentative diatriabe, just simply stating the facts)? Post this on openssl.org and offer inquiring minds a pointer? This is getting silly when 30 days can't

RE: Any possibility of GPL-based license in the future?

2006-05-16 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Howard Chu Sent: Tuesday, May 16, 2006 4:58 PM To: openssl-dev@openssl.org Cc: Bob Beck Subject: Re: Any possibility of GPL-based license in the future? Sometimes the fact that the main source moves onward

RE: Any possibility of GPL-based license in the future?

2006-05-16 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Jeffrey Altman Sent: Tuesday, May 16, 2006 2:03 PM To: openssl-dev@openssl.org Cc: Bob Beck; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Any possibility of GPL-based license in the future? It is impossible for OpenSSL