Re: Converting a licence to be DFSG compliant
On Tue 04 Aug 2009 at 19:32:44 +0200, Miriam Ruiz wrote:
> Have a look at http://www.gnome.org/~markmc/openssl-and-the-gpl.html
Thank you; it was a helpful read.
I looked at a few of the source packages which depend on libssl. The copyright
file for vsftpd has:
> As copyright holder, I give permission for vsftpd to be linked to the
> OpenSSL libraries. This includes permission for vsftpd binaries to be
> distributed linked against the OpenSSL libraries. All other obligations
> under the GPL v2 remain intact.
Which I assume is acceptable for legal purposes even though this exeption
appears in none of the source files.
http://people.debian.org/~bap/dfsg-faq
also implies putting the exception only in the licence is ok, so I will suggest
that to the author of the software.
Cheers,
Brian.
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