On Saturday 14 July 2007 11:03, Simon Josefsson wrote: > Kern Sibbald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > >> GPL + OpenSSL exception would be enough to be sure. You may have more > >> luck convincing copyright owners to grant an OpenSSL exception than to > >> accept an entirely new license. > > > > I am told that FSF never grants exceptions so this is a hopeless path that I > > have already explored. > > That is incorrect. The FSF has granted OpenSSL license exceptions to > some software that links to OpenSSL. For example, GNU wget.
Interesting. Shane would you comment on this? > > Exactly what FSF code are you using? It couldn't hurt to ask them. If > it is general purpose code, I suspect they won't give it, but if it is > network or even TLS related, there could be a chance. Well, it is pretty general purpose. None of the FSF code is network or TLS related. The FSF files involved are: src/lib/fnmatch.h FSF src/lib/fnmatch.c FSF src/lib/enh_fnmatch.h FSF src/lib/enh_fnmatch.c FSF (fnmatch enhanced by us) src/lib/idcache.c FSF (from tar I think) src/findlib/save-cwd.c FSF (from tar I think) src/findlib/makepath.c FSF (from tar I think) In addition, there are two files copyrighted by Anders Carlsson, two by Sun Microsystems in the tray-monitor directory, and a number of files by AT&T all in the win32 subdirectories. My status on this "project" is: - I have already removed or replaced(with BSD code) three files that were copyrighted by FSF - idcache.c, I will re-write in any case (I've been planning this long before this problem). - I have a BSD licensed replacement for fnmatch, which I can substitute after the 2.2.0 (next) release of Bacula. - Probably enh_fnmatch will follow, but it is a good deal of extra work since it involves a good number of modifications. - save-cwd.c and makepath.c are heavily modified and will be more difficult to replace (confusion of the original code and the heavy modifications make the task harder). - I will rewrite the AT&T copyrighted code after 2.2.0 is released, but this code is used only in the Win32 release so does not concern the Debian problem. - The Anders Carlsson and Sun copyrighted code is used in the GTK tray monitor and is problematic because I don't like working on GTK (makes it harder) and I am not familar with the code. I doubt that there is any BSD GTK tray monitor code :-( If you do not build the tray monitor binary with OpenSSL this will eliminate that problem. Regards, Kern -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
