On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 12:46 AM, Dr. David Kirkby <david.kir...@onetel.net> wrote: > William Stein wrote: > Personally, I do not believe it is legal to ship OpenSSL and for Sage to > remain GPL, unless you could get the python developers agree to add an > clause that permits linking against OpenSSL. > > http://www.openssl.org/support/faq.html#LEGAL2 > > says. "If you are using GPL software developed by others, you may want to > ask the copyright holder for permission to use their software with OpenSSL."
Python is not GPL software. >> Note that a few years ago, Sage did ship opensll and not ship the >> gnutls stack. Then a student in my Sage class pointed out that >> openssl is licensed in a GPL-incompatible way, and that's when we >> switched to GNUtls. > > I agree with him/her. Do you mean that you agree with the statement: "The Openssl license is not GPL-compatible?" -- William Stein Associate Professor of Mathematics University of Washington http://wstein.org -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL: http://www.sagemath.org
