On Fri, 09 Nov 2007 23:35:55 +0100, Josselin Mouette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Le jeudi 08 novembre 2007 à 19:27 +0100, Marc Haber a écrit : >> (1) >> Is it ok to change exim's SSL library to OpenSSL in the current setup >> without violating the GPL for some of the library currently in use > >It would be nice to get explicit permission from the Exim developers to >link with Perl code under the Artistic license, but it seems to me that >this whole mess is already legally redistributable.
I have filed an upstream bug (http://bugs.exim.org/show_bug.cgi?id=629) asking for this permission. >> (3) >> Is this violation maybe already happening by virtue of linking >> indirectly to OpenSSL via libpq? > >It would, if exim and libmysqlclient's exceptions weren't so broad. Let me understand this in Theory. Given the following link tree: ------------- | program P | ------------- / \ / \ ------------- ------------- | library L | | library M | ------------- ------------- | ------------- | OpenSSL | ------------- If both M and P were GPL with OpenSSL exception, but L were GPL without OpenSSL exception, this linking would be a violation of L's license?`By virtue of P linking to M and L and M linking to OpenSSL? Greetings Marc -- -------------------------------------- !! No courtesy copies, please !! ----- Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header Mannheim, Germany | Beginning of Wisdom " | http://www.zugschlus.de/ Nordisch by Nature | Lt. Worf, TNG "Rightful Heir" | Fon: *49 621 72739834
