On Tue, 2008-06-10 at 10:46 -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > > - oftc-hybrid (impossible to get an exception, dead contributors) > > * As a special exception, the authors give permission to link the > code of this > * release of oftc-hybrid with the OpenSSL project's "OpenSSL" > library (or > * with modified versions of it that use the same license as the > "OpenSSL" > * library), and distribute the linked executables. You must obey > the GNU > * General Public License in all respects for all of the code used > other than > * "OpenSSL". If you modify the code, you may extend this exception > to your > * version of the files, but you are not obligated to do so. If you > do not > * wish to do so, delete this exception statement from your version. You've been conned. OFTC-Hybrid is based on Hybrid which is based on 2.8 and therefore cannot add such an exception; it is effectively in the same boat that charybdis is in. I could lie and add the same exception to my debian/copyright too, but it wouldn't be true and it wouldn't be right to do so. Furthermore, a grep of that string in the source brings no results other than debian/copyright, which demonstrates that nothing actually HAS this exception anyway: nenolod@petrie:~/oftc-hybrid-1.6.3.dfsg$ grep "As a special exception, the authors give permission" * -R debian/copyright: * As a special exception, the authors give permission to link the code of this nenolod@petrie:~/oftc-hybrid-1.6.3.dfsg$ At any rate, I intend to wait until version 3.1 of charybdis anyway now, which has a GNUTLS backend (I've written it, and it just needs to be debugged). William
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