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Re: Bacula and OpenSSL



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Hi Kern

Kern Sibbald wrote:
> On Saturday 14 July 2007 11:03, Simon Josefsson wrote:
>> That is incorrect.  The FSF has granted OpenSSL license exceptions to
>> some software that links to OpenSSL.  For example, GNU wget.
> 
> Interesting.  Shane would you comment on this?

As Simon said, in certain special circumstances selected GNU tools
related to networking have been granted exceptions.  I suggest that such
a grant is not likely in the case of the general purpose code included
with Bacula.

However, please bear in mind that I don't speak for FSF :)

> In addition, there are two files copyrighted by Anders Carlsson, two by Sun 
> Microsystems in the tray-monitor directory,  and a number of files by AT&T 
> all in the win32 subdirectories.

All of the authors of third-party code would need to be contacted for a
linking exception, though from your last email it sounds like you have
already removed a substantial amount of the third-party code.

I have some availability this week.  I could do a physical meeting or a
phone call during Wednesday and Thursday afternoon if you think it would
be useful. :)

Regards

Shane

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