Quoting Francesco Poli (2017-03-30 23:37:32) > On Wed, 29 Mar 2017 23:28:46 -0400 Richard Fontana wrote: > > > On Thu, Mar 30, 2017 at 05:08:24AM +0200, Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez wrote: > > > > > Do you (or anyone else) _really_ think the copyright holders of > > > the GPL program in question had any intention ever of not allowing > > > their program to be used along with OpenSSL, when they where the > > > ones implementing support for using it on the first place? > > > > This, I would say, encapsulates the real Fedora/Red Hat position on > > this issue to the extent there is one. It assumes that the intent of > > the copyright holders can be determined from their actions. > > What about programs that link both with OpenSSL and with a third party > purely-GPL-licensed library? <sarchasm> Surely we can then asses that the intend of our upstreams in such cases is schizophrenic: They _both_ want to dillute the copyleft licensing _and_ uphold it strongly. Because our job as distributors is not to respect what upstreams explicitly dictate through licensing, but to second-guess what is _really_ going on in their minds - and when their mindset and ours do not align, then surely they cannot be trusted to mean what the say - our need for simple distribution has higher priority than their right to grant complex licensing. Right? </sarchasm> - Jonas -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist & Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ [x] quote me freely [ ] ask before reusing [ ] keep private
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