Re: Bacula and OpenSSL
On Monday 16 July 2007 17:15, Shane M. Coughlan wrote:
> Hi Kern
>
> Kern Sibbald wrote:
> > Yes, and in addition, after Josselin's email, I did a bit of research, and
for
> > at least one of the files that we use (fnmatch.c), the FSF license was
> > changed from GPL to LGPL sometime in 2004 the best I can tell.
> > Unfortunately, we are still using the old GPL'ed version rather than the
> > newer LGPL'ed version.
> > While it would be best to convert to the newer version, it is not so easy
as
> > the we have made some modifications to the old one to support Win32
systems
> > (stupid difference of path separators, ...).
> > Question: for old GPL'ed versions of fnmatch.c and fnmatch.h that we are
using
> > copyrighted in 1997 by FSF, would it be possible to modify them to use the
> > LGPL as you are currently doing?
> > That would give me a bit of breathing room (i.e. no recoding for the
moment).
> > Long term, I am probably going to use your newer LGPLed version since it
> > supports UTF-8, but that will take some modifications and lots of testing.
>
> FSF would need to answer this question directly. FSF and FSFE are
> sister organisations but we are administratively separate. I will pass
> this question onward off-list. :)
OK, understood thanks. This is not really extremely urgent since its
determination will not change the immenent 2.2.0 release.
>
> > However, one important issue to work through is Josselin's claim that due
to
> > the wording in GPL v3, I could switch to it, and it would be OK to link
> > OpenSSL in as shared objects.
>
> I am discussing this with Brett Smith at the moment.
Thanks. This point is important (pressing) as it could provide a quick
solution for Debian.
Best regards,
Kern
>
> Regards
>
> Shane
>
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