"Jamin W. Collins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I'm wondering if any of the frequent -legal posters would mind helping
> with a review of my proposed Jabberd2 packages. There was some concern
> over the original package and the fact that a GPL'd work was linked
> against OpenSSL. I understand this concern and the upstream author has
> been very cooperative in attempting to sort these matters out. An
> exception has been added for Jabberd2 to allow linking against OpenSSL,
> but I would like to try and make sure there aren't any other licensing
> problems.
Iff:
* The entire package is under the GNU GPL version 2
* and there's an exception to allow linking against OpenSSL
* And every copyright holder on the package agreed to that exception
-- so it doesn't reuse GPL'd code from elsewhere, for example,
unless there's also a GPL exception for OpenSSL from the authors
of that code.
THEN the GPL/OpenSSL issue is fine, and there are likely no other
licensing concerns.
--
Brian Sniffen [EMAIL PROTECTED]
