Ted Mittelstaedt wrote:
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From: "David Schwartz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <openssl-users@openssl.org>
Sent: Tuesday, August 22, 2006 2:04 PM
Subject: RE: related license question
Certainly. Nothing in the OpenSSL licenses requires you to allow
redistribution of any derivative works you create.
Wrong. See the following:
"...The licence and distribution terms for any publically available version
^^^^^^^^^^
The question is, what this word means.
or
derivative of this code cannot be changed..."
http://www.openssl.org/source/license.html
Yes, the OpenSSL does not explicitly require you to allow redistribution of
any derivitave works you create. However, it explicitly requires you
to not change the distribution terms of the derivitave work that you
create, and since the redistribution terms are open, that forces you to
also use open redistribution terms.
If someone adds *own* code to OpenSSL and forbids redistribution of *his*
code, the resulting package is imho no longer publically available and
therefore the sentence cited above would no longer apply. Am i wrong? If i am
wrong, the OpenSSL license would be infectious like the GPL, and my impression
is, that the sentence cited above has been added to the license for preventing
such infectiousity, but i may be wrong.
Ciao,
Richard
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Dr. Richard W. Könning
Fujitsu Siemens Computers GmbH
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