Re: [PATCH] License exception for OpenSSL (was Re: Linking Nessus with OpenSSL)

2002-07-15 Thread Simon Law
Hi Renaud, On Wed, Jun 26, 2002 at 01:08:42AM +0200, Renaud Deraison wrote: > On Tue, Jun 25, 2002 at 07:04:32PM -0400, Simon Law wrote: > > Just touching base with you regarding the license conflict with > > OpenSSL. Have you had a chance to talk to your lawyer? I'm not > > pushing, but I'd

Re: [PATCH] License exception for OpenSSL (was Re: Linking Nessus with OpenSSL)

2002-05-24 Thread Branden Robinson
On Fri, May 24, 2002 at 07:13:07PM -0400, Simon Law wrote: > Reading through the license exception again, we only need to > worry if the OpenSSL folks get nasty on us. This is because modified > versions of OpenSSL must use the same license as OpenSSL (four-clause BSD > with OpenSSL advertis

Re: [PATCH] License exception for OpenSSL (was Re: Linking Nessus with OpenSSL)

2002-05-24 Thread Simon Law
On 24 May 2002, Jeff Licquia wrote: > Simon Law wrote: > > If that doesn't work, could we say that the OpenSSL library can > > only be used for SSL support only? > > For a given definition of "SSL support"? :-) > > It seems to me that the best way forward is to restrict the exact > behavior w

Re: [PATCH] License exception for OpenSSL (was Re: Linking Nessus with OpenSSL)

2002-05-24 Thread Simon Law
On Fri, 24 May 2002, Renaud Deraison wrote: > On Fri, May 24, 2002 at 09:03:50AM -0400, Simon Law wrote: > > if a company made extensions to Nessus > > and bundled them into the OpenSSL library; then they wouldn't actually > > be derivative works of OpenSSL, but rather derivative works of Nessus. >

Re: [PATCH] License exception for OpenSSL (was Re: Linking Nessus with OpenSSL)

2002-05-24 Thread Jeff Licquia
On Fri, 2002-05-24 at 08:03, Simon Law wrote: > I'm cc-ing to debian-legal about this, because I'm not sure if > this argument would hold water: if a company made extensions to Nessus > and bundled them into the OpenSSL library; then they wouldn't actually > be derivative works of OpenSSL, bu

Re: [PATCH] License exception for OpenSSL (was Re: Linking Nessus with OpenSSL)

2002-05-24 Thread Renaud Deraison
On Fri, May 24, 2002 at 09:03:50AM -0400, Simon Law wrote: > if a company made extensions to Nessus > and bundled them into the OpenSSL library; then they wouldn't actually > be derivative works of OpenSSL, but rather derivative works of Nessus. The problem is that this is a _subjective_ issue. W

Re: [PATCH] License exception for OpenSSL (was Re: Linking Nessus with OpenSSL)

2002-05-24 Thread Simon Law
On Fri, 24 May 2002, Renaud Deraison wrote: > On Fri, May 24, 2002 at 12:32:39PM +0200, Renaud Deraison wrote: > > On Wed, May 22, 2002 at 02:10:45AM -0400, Simon Law wrote: > > > On Fri, 17 May 2002, Renaud Deraison wrote: > > > 2002-05-22 Simon Law <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > > > * Added th

Re: Linking Nessus with OpenSSL

2002-05-22 Thread Simon Law
On Wed, 15 May 2002, Branden Robinson wrote: > [ nessus.org addresses not Cc'ed ] > > On Wed, May 15, 2002 at 07:13:15PM -0400, Simon Law wrote: > > As well, to keep Nessus free, you should also put in a clause allowing > > anyone else to remove this exemption in their derivative works. > > Just

Re: Linking Nessus with OpenSSL

2002-05-15 Thread Branden Robinson
[ nessus.org addresses not Cc'ed ] On Wed, May 15, 2002 at 07:13:15PM -0400, Simon Law wrote: > As well, to keep Nessus free, you should also put in a clause allowing > anyone else to remove this exemption in their derivative works. Just FYI... This isn't solely a matter of keeping Nessus free.

Linking Nessus with OpenSSL

2002-05-15 Thread Simon Law
Hi Renaund et al., First off, I want to thank everyone for a great job with Nessus 1.2.0. It's much better compared to Nessus 1.0.10, which I was running before. You guys are fantastic. As I was compiling Nessus 1.2.0, I noticed something of concern. It seems like Nessus, a piec