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Re: GPL exception for the OpenSSL library



On Tue, Jul 30, 2002 at 03:33:49PM +0200, Bodo Moeller wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 30, 2002 at 09:21:34AM -0400, Simon Law wrote:
> 
> > 	I believe that the copyright statement is not a part of the
> > license.  The copyright statement is merely informational text, in
> > countries that are Berne convention signatories, is it not?  I have been
> > under the impression that the license is the stuff following the
> > copyright statement which outlines your rights and restrictions _in_
> > _addition_ to standard copyright.
> 
> Probably you are right, the problem is just that MD5 does not know
> about this :-)

	Well, perhaps you don't have to include the copyright statement
in COPYING.OpenSSL.  Then you'd still be reproducing the license, no?
Can someone find out if this is the case?

Simon


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