----- Original Message ----- From: "Richard Salz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <openssl-users@openssl.org> Sent: Saturday, September 02, 2006 10:04 PM Subject: Re: license question
> > There are many funny licensing clauses that appear nonsensical to the > > layman but are perfectly logical. The SSLeay and OpenSSL license is > > an extremely sloppy and poorly defined document because the people > > who wrote it were under the misguided assumption that good legal > > documentation is simple. > > I don't know about OpenSSL, but for SSLeay you're wrong. A great deal of > lawyer time and effort was spent in writing it. > Then the lawyer got a lot of money for doing a shitty job, which is par for the course for most lawyers. Have you ever paid money for a lawyer to write or do anything for you? I have. Take a look at any commercial US software license. Take a look for that matter at the GPL license. A child could compare them against the SSLeay license and see that the SSLeay license is too simplistic. In the US, in any contract dispute where a term in a contract is ill-defined, the courts usually rule against the person that wrote the contract, not the person who is being accused of violating it. Ted ______________________________________________________________________ OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org User Support Mailing List openssl-users@openssl.org Automated List Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED]
