On Sun, Dec 22, 2002 at 03:38:03AM +1100, Andrew Lau wrote: > On Fri, Dec 20, 2002 at 10:50:42AM +0000, Jules Bean wrote: > > It is my intention to upload Lyx (and indeed Balsa) this weekend. > Hi Jules, > Nice to see you're back. You can't actually legally upload > Balsa yet. Much to my horror when I was repackaging Balsa 2, I > discovered that Balsa had no OpenSSL exclusion clause in its > license. Balsa was also indirectly linking to OpenSSL via the ESMTP > libraries as well. So in fact, the current Balsa package in Debian is > actually violating the GPL! > Thankfully, I've managed to persuade Balsa-devel to add an > OpenSSL exclusion clause to their license in their 2.0.4 release which > is due sometime before Christmas. Until then, feel free to look over > the work I did during your absence [1]. If upstream is willing to add a license exemption, you don't have to wait for the next upstream release to get this resolved; a license doesn't have to come in the form of a LICENSE file. All you need to do is ask them if you can apply this exemption to the current version of the software. -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer
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