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Re: Bacula and OpenSSL



Le dimanche 30 septembre 2007 à 20:24 +0200, Kern Sibbald a écrit :
> > > However, the concept of deleting parts of the license don't appeal to me.
> > >  I prefer the following which is a modification of my prior license that
> > > was accepted by Debian.  The modification makes my prior license a bit
> > > more specific -- i.e. it restricts it to OSI licensed libraries.
> >
> > Well, any exception that you add to the GPL can be removed, this is by
> > design of the GPL. This is also true of the other wording you suggested.
> 
> It isn't really important, but I'd be surprised if that is true as it the 
> author of the code can decide anything he/she wants by modifying the GPL.

Yes, it is possible, but in this case I don't think the resulting
license is compatible with the GPL; if these new terms must me
supplemented for all derived versions, that makes them "further
restrictions".

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