Date: Sat, 18 Oct 2003 12:06:12 +1300 (NZDT) From: Matthew Luckie <mjl@luckie.org.nz> To: Charles Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Third Party Patches that link to OpenSSL Message-ID: <20031018120122.D12729@lycra.luckie.org.nz> In-Reply-To: <3C9629F4-003A-11D8-A887-003065ABFD92@mac.com> References: <3C9629F4-003A-11D8-A887-003065ABFD92@mac.com>
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> > They've said that unless the gaim project sanctions the use of OpenSSL > > with their code, that I should not release the code. Apparently that > > would require contacting all of the prior developers to get their > > permission. > > Who is "they"? ChipX86, javabsp, a few others in #gaim > Anyway, if there was a meaningful license conflict between Gaim and > OpenSSL, the GPL (section 7) would forbid you from redistributing your > modified version of Gaim+OpenSSL, but it would not forbid you from > redistributing your patches by themselves. yes, i've come to that conclusion. i love gaim, i love freebsd, this makes using gaim on freebsd (and netbsd, for that matter, where there are gnutls issues) a lot better. shame that there is a tension http://www.netbsd.org/cgi-bin/query-pr-single.pl?number=23172
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