Re: Bacula and OpenSSL
Simon Josefsson <simon@josefsson.org> wrote:
> Kern Sibbald <kern@sibbald.com> writes:
>>> GPL + OpenSSL exception would be enough to be sure. You may have more
>>> luck convincing copyright owners to grant an OpenSSL exception than to
>>> accept an entirely new license.
>>
>> I am told that FSF never grants exceptions so this is a hopeless path that I
>> have already explored.
> That is incorrect. The FSF has granted OpenSSL license exceptions to
> some software that links to OpenSSL. For example, GNU wget.
That's not an example (unless you're intending to show a case where
FSF allows itself to do things that it forbids others ;-)
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Thomas E. Dickey
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