On Fri, Dec 18, 1998, Ben Laurie wrote:
> Since it seems pretty unlikely that there will be any further versions
> of SSLeay, Steve Henson and I have started work on improving and fixing
> the current release (SSLeay 0.9.0b). We're folding in Steve's fairly
> extensive library of bugfixes, my somewhat smaller one and his PKSC#12
> patches (and probably some other stuff I forgot). We've also fixed a few
> recently reported bugs (such as the erroneous SET encoding). A release,
> website and FTP site should be forthcoming in the next few weeks, we
> hope. In the meantime, we are soliciting the following:
>
> 1. A name for this new project :-) (We feel that calling it SSLeay would
> be rude).
>
> 2. Any known bugs or patches - since we only recently started this
> effort, there may be stuff reported some time ago which we are not aware
> of.
>
> 3. Wishlist stuff.
>
> 4. Interested participants - anyone who wants to help is _more_ than
> welcome. Get in touch with me or Steve (we'll have an email alias as
> soon as we get a name!).
>
> 5. Anything else I haven't thought of.
IMHO you've at least not taken into account the following points, Ben:
1. FRIENDLINESS:
It's not friendly how you force Eric and Tim into making a
public statement on this.
2. TEAMWORK:
You already knew that others have similar ``save the SSLeay future''
idea for a long time, but you just ignored them and instead quickly
announce the idea to make it your project. When you remember yourself, you
know that you already did a similar rude approach with the Crypozilla
project in the past.
3. LEGAL ASPECT:
You cannot easily start a new project on your own based on the existing
SSLeay 0.9.0b because of the SSLeay license. At least only as long as you
really use the original license from Eric and Tim or making a patch-kit
instead of new distribution. And such a patch-kit was the idea of the other
people I talked under 2.).
So, sorry to say this, but although I highly appreciate work in this area (and
also want to contribute my patches) I really dislike your tactical and
political approach you've again chosen.
Greetings,
Ralf S. Engelschall
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www.engelschall.com
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