Am Samstag, 2. September 2006 17:58 schrieb Patryk Cisek: > Hello, > > I'm packaging Kadu program (www.kadu.net) for Debian and Ubuntu right now. > There's a problem with Kadu's license (GPLv2 or later), which conflicts > OpenSSL's license. When project started, upstream authors where not aware > of the conflict, so they didn't add a proper exception. However, now > they're not sure if they can add this exception now. Many contributors have > submitted patches over time and, as upstream and I understand, copyright > holders for those patches are the contributors. So does Kadu's upstream > have to ask authors of all applied patches (which is simply not possible, > because there's no contact with many of them any more) for a permission to > change the license? Well, they have rights to their patches, but copyright > holder for Kadu is Kadu Team > (http://www.kadu.net/wiki/index.php/English:Authors). Could someone, > please, clarify this? > > -- > Patryk Cisek Hi,
I looked at the sources just to check if I can help. I ported my C++-application (tntnet) from openssl to gnutls to fix the license-problem as Kari Pahula suggested here (and me). But I found out, that all openssl-checks are commented out in configure.ac and this comment: # Maybe it will be back when GG servers have SSL support finally #echo " OpenSSL encryption support: $have_openssl" Still my suggestion to the team to look into my tntnet-sources (www.tntnet.org) for GnuTLS-support in C++. I wrote a wrapper based on std::iostream for both openssl and gnutls. Tommi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
