Re: libreadline
On Sat, 2002-05-04 at 17:14, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote:
>
> Also, a point of information for those of us who don't know all the
> details. The GPL-incompatibility in the Open SSL package is purely
> that it contains a variant on the old noxious BSD advertising clause.
> Has anyone asked the OpenSSL project if they would consider removing
> the clause? (Or replacing it with a request?)
See
<URL:http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2002/debian-legal-200204/msg00072.html>
for the start of the thread that I created on debian-legal.
I was told that openssl cannot change the license, Eric Young is the
copyright holder. I do not know if anyone has approached Eric (I would
be surprised if nobody has) or not, but somebody thought it would be
unlikely that he would want to change it.
--
Brian May <bam@snoopy.apana.org.au>
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