Here's my last email with Markus about this subject. I'm forwarding it as he requested. Maybe we should quote his exception somewhere in the tarball, James?
----- Forwarded message from "Markus F.X.J. Oberhumer" <mar...@oberhumer.com> ----- From: "Markus F.X.J. Oberhumer" <mar...@oberhumer.com> To: Alberto Gonzalez Iniesta <a...@agi.as> Subject: Re: Compiling and/or linking liblzo with OpenSSL List-Post: openvpn-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Date: Sat, 3 May 2003 16:57:42 +0200 X-no-Archive: yes X-GPG-KeyID: 0x0B2043C9 X-GPG-Fingerprint: 1077 CF79 F341 3A50 03A3 93CE 4D61 57AB 0B20 43C9 X-GPG-Keyserver: http://www.keyserver.net/ X-Oberhumer-Conspiracy: There is no conspiracy. At least not today. X-SpamProbe: GOOD 0.0000000 885e45b1c2c5ae91fe5eefa0772b2336 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.50 (1.173-2003-02-20-exp) Hello Alberto, thanks for all the info - I was not aware that OpenSSL uses the old style BSD license (and that all the problems just arise from the advertising clause). On Sat, 3 May 2003 11:51:42 +0200 Alberto Gonzalez Iniesta wrote: > First of all, thanks for your support. And sorry for any inconvenience. > That exception should be enough for us. > May I quote it in Debian's package? Sure, it the paragraph below is fine for you (I hope there are no more typos left...) then please add that. Also please forward this mail to the upstream OpenVPN developer. Regards, Markus Hereby I grant a special exception to the OpenVPN project (http://openvpn.sourceforge.net) to link the LZO library with the OpenSSL library (http://www.openssl.org). Markus F.X.J. Oberhumer -- Markus Oberhumer, <mar...@oberhumer.com>, http://www.oberhumer.com/ ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Alberto Gonzalez Iniesta | agi@(agi.as|debian.org) | Encrypted mail preferred | Key fingerprint = 9782 04E7 2B75 405C F5E9 0C81 C514 AF8E 4BA4 01C3
