This is not legal advice, I am not a lawyer. On Thu, 13 Feb 2003, Anthony DeRobertis wrote: > On Wed, 2003-02-12 at 22:21, Don Armstrong wrote: > > What is the currently recommended method for adding a linking > > exception (say with OpenSSL) to a program licensed under the GPL? > > http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#WritingFSWithNFLibs Mikael, if you could get Bo to change his copyright statement to this, [as recommended in the link Anthony provided] that should clear up the licensing issue, without having to modify the GPL. [And it would avoid having lintian complain...] Copyright (C) 2002 Bo Lincoln <lincoln@lysator.liu.se> This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA In addition, as a special exception, Bo Lincoln gives permission to link the code of this program with the OpenSSL library (or with modified versions of OpenSSL that use the same license as OpenSSL), and distribute linked combinations including the two. You must obey the GNU General Public License in all respects for all of the code used other than OpenSSL. If you modify this file, you may extend this exception to your version of the file, but you are not obligated to do so. If you do not wish to do so, delete this exception statement from your version. <<END>> Don Armstrong -- Il semble que la perfection soit atteinte non quand il n'y a plus rien a ajouter, mais quand il n'y a plus rien a retrancher. (Perfection is apparently not achieved when nothing more can be added, but when nothing else can be removed.) -- Antoine de Saint-Exupe'ry, Terres des Hommes http://www.donarmstrong.com http://www.anylevel.com http://rzlab.ucr.edu
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