Le mardi 20 novembre 2007 à 12:10 +0100, Matej Vela a écrit : > Is GPLv3 compatible with the OpenSSL license? I don't think so. > 3. All advertising materials mentioning features or use of this > software must display the following acknowledgment: > "This product includes software developed by the OpenSSL Project > for use in the OpenSSL Toolkit. (http://www.openssl.org/)" This is the actual clause that is GPL-incompatible. > 6. Redistributions of any form whatsoever must retain the following > acknowledgment: > "This product includes software developed by the OpenSSL Project > for use in the OpenSSL Toolkit (http://www.openssl.org/)" I don't think this clause is even incompatible with the GPLv2, although this is debatable. > might be permitted by GPLv3 section 7: > > Notwithstanding any other provision of this License, for material you > add to a covered work, you may (if authorized by the copyright holders of > that material) supplement the terms of this License with terms: > > b) Requiring preservation of specified reasonable legal notices or > author attributions in that material or in the Appropriate Legal > Notices displayed by works containing it; or > > d) Limiting the use for publicity purposes of names of licensors or > authors of the material; or > > e) Declining to grant rights under trademark law for use of some > trade names, trademarks, or service marks; or I'm afraid none of these exceptions apply for advertising material. The FSF has always considered such clauses to be BAD(tm) (and I can't say I find them very nice), it's no surprise the GPLv3 doesn't allow them. -- .''`. : :' : We are debian.org. Lower your prices, surrender your code. `. `' We will add your hardware and software distinctiveness to `- our own. Resistance is futile.
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