On 7/17/05, Marco d'Itri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Upstream developers should get a clue and either properly license their > software, stop using libcurl or adding gnutls support to it.
Upstream developers (and a lot of other people) should stop believing the FSF's FUD about how it's not legal to integrate (in an engineering sense) components offered under the GPL and GPL-incompatible licenses, especially OpenSSL. That claim is (IANAL, TINLA) utterly without foundation in the applicable law, not to mention profoundly hypocritical in light of the LPF's amicus brief in Lotus v. Borland and the incorporation of the OpenSSL interface spec in the shim bundled with GNU TLS. Knuckling under to it, where OpenSSL is concerned, amounts IMHO to collusion with an extra-legal anti-competitive strategy that may yet be proven against the FSF under a more appropriate choice of law by someone more genuinely affected and more legally competent than Daniel Wallace. Cheers, - Michael
