Re: Bacula and OpenSSL
On Saturday 14 July 2007 11:03, Simon Josefsson wrote:
> Kern Sibbald <kern@sibbald.com> writes:
>
> >> GPL + OpenSSL exception would be enough to be sure. You may have more
> >> luck convincing copyright owners to grant an OpenSSL exception than to
> >> accept an entirely new license.
> >
> > I am told that FSF never grants exceptions so this is a hopeless path that
I
> > have already explored.
>
> That is incorrect. The FSF has granted OpenSSL license exceptions to
> some software that links to OpenSSL. For example, GNU wget.
Interesting. Shane would you comment on this?
>
> Exactly what FSF code are you using? It couldn't hurt to ask them. If
> it is general purpose code, I suspect they won't give it, but if it is
> network or even TLS related, there could be a chance.
Well, it is pretty general purpose. None of the FSF code is network or TLS
related. The FSF files involved are:
src/lib/fnmatch.h FSF
src/lib/fnmatch.c FSF
src/lib/enh_fnmatch.h FSF
src/lib/enh_fnmatch.c FSF (fnmatch enhanced by us)
src/lib/idcache.c FSF (from tar I think)
src/findlib/save-cwd.c FSF (from tar I think)
src/findlib/makepath.c FSF (from tar I think)
In addition, there are two files copyrighted by Anders Carlsson, two by Sun
Microsystems in the tray-monitor directory, and a number of files by AT&T
all in the win32 subdirectories.
My status on this "project" is:
- I have already removed or replaced(with BSD code) three files that were
copyrighted by FSF
- idcache.c, I will re-write in any case (I've been planning this long before
this problem).
- I have a BSD licensed replacement for fnmatch, which I can substitute after
the 2.2.0 (next) release of Bacula.
- Probably enh_fnmatch will follow, but it is a good deal of extra work since
it involves a good number of modifications.
- save-cwd.c and makepath.c are heavily modified and will be more difficult to
replace (confusion of the original code and the heavy modifications make the
task harder).
- I will rewrite the AT&T copyrighted code after 2.2.0 is released, but this
code is used only in the Win32 release so does not concern the Debian
problem.
- The Anders Carlsson and Sun copyrighted code is used in the GTK tray monitor
and is problematic because I don't like working on GTK (makes it harder) and
I am not familar with the code. I doubt that there is any BSD GTK tray
monitor code :-( If you do not build the tray monitor binary with OpenSSL
this will eliminate that problem.
Regards,
Kern
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