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Date:      Fri, 02 May 2003 18:08:20 +0200
From:      Matthias Andree <ma@dt.e-technik.uni-dortmund.de>
To:        Matthias Andree <ma@dt.e-technik.uni-dortmund.de>
Cc:        freebsd-ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: RFC: OpenSSL vs. GNU GPL (affects security/openvpn)?
Message-ID:  <m3vfwte3gr.fsf@merlin.emma.line.org>
In-Reply-To: <m3wuhcj3ku.fsf@merlin.emma.line.org> (Matthias Andree's message of "Wed, 30 Apr 2003 01:17:53 %2B0200")
References:  <m3wuhcj3ku.fsf@merlin.emma.line.org>

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Matthias Andree <ma@dt.e-technik.uni-dortmund.de> writes:

> it has recently been brought to my attention that the OpenVPN package
> links against both OpenSSL (which is under a BSD-derived license with
> advertising clause) and LZO (which is under the GNU GPL). OpenVPN itself
> includes an exception to the GNU GPL allowing linking against OpenSSL.

No opinions? I'll then forbid binary packages when I update the port
next time (OpenVPN 1.4.0 is due soon).

-- 
Matthias Andree



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