On Fri, Aug 02, 2002 at 12:34:56PM +0200, Grzegorz Prokopski wrote: > W li?cie z ?ro, 31-07-2002, godz. 16:40, Andrew Lau pisze: > Has the GPL been given additional OpenSSL exclusion clause or sth? > Please clarify I've just checked the COPYING file provided with the pt tarball, and it's the plain vanilla GPL2 license, without an OpenSSL Toolkit License Exception like that as found within the CUPS license: === /usr/share/doc/cupsys/copyright License Exceptions In addition, as the copyright holder of CUPS, Easy Software Products grants the following special exceptions: 1. Apple Operating System Development License Exception; ... 2. OpenSSL Toolkit License Exception; a. Easy Software Products explicitly allows the compilation and distribution of the CUPS software with the OpenSSL Toolkit. No developer is required to provide these exceptions in a derived work. === As cups-pt (the current Debian package name) is a GTK+ front-end to CUPS, can it be classified as a derived work? Does it matter? I have no knowledge of the current situation in dealing with OpenSSL libraries. I just assumed they could go in main as there are other packages such as apache-ssl that are in main. Yours sincerely, Andrew "Netsnipe" Lau PS: I'm forwarding this to legal so that I might get a more satisfying explanation. -- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- * Andrew 'Netsnipe' Lau Computer Science & Sturep, UNSW * * "apt-get into it" Debian GNU/Linux Packager * * <netsnipe(+)debianplanet.org\0> <alau(+)cse.unsw.edu.au\0> * * GnuPG 1024D/2E8B68BD 0B77 73D0 4F3B F286 63F1 9F4A 9B24 C07D 2E8B 68BD * ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
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