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Re: libruby, openssl and its GPL-incompatibility



On Mon, 3 Aug 2015 11:13:55 +0300 Hleb Valoshka wrote:

> On 8/1/15, Francesco Poli <invernomuto@paranoici.org> wrote:
> ...
> > As a consequence, I can think of the following possible strategies to
> > address this issue:
> >
> >  A) persuade the OpenSSL copyright holders to switch to a sane 3-clause
> >     BSD license (which is GPL-compatible)
> 
> The latest news [1] says that openssl is planning to switch to Apache
> 2.0 license. So let's just wait a bit.
> 
> 
> https://www.openssl.org/blog/blog/2015/08/01/cla/

Wow! This sounds like interesting news, thanks a lot for pointing this
blog entry out to me!

I would be even happier, if OpenSSL were planning to switch to the
3-clause BSD license (or to the Expat license, or to the zlib
license, ...), since that move would also make OpenSSL GPLv2-compatible
and not only GPLv3-compatible.
But still, very interesting news!

Thanks again for your reply.

I wonder how long the re-licensing process will take...



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