Re: Licencing issues

2000-11-14 Thread DarĂ­o Mariani
Michael Sierchio wrote: > > Ulf Moeller wrote: > > > Also, if you're in doubt about what the GPL does or doesn't allow, you > > should get legal advise. The FSF clearly has its own ideological agenda. > > The GPL neither permits nor forbids anything -- it is an untested > experiment, an abuse

Re: Licencing issues

2000-11-14 Thread Michael Sierchio
Ulf Moeller wrote: > Also, if you're in doubt about what the GPL does or doesn't allow, you > should get legal advise. The FSF clearly has its own ideological agenda. The GPL neither permits nor forbids anything -- it is an untested experiment, an abuse of copyright law, and would not withstan

Re: Licencing issues

2000-11-14 Thread Holger Reif
Ulf Moeller schrieb: > > On Tue, Nov 14, 2000, Ulf Moeller wrote: > > > OpenSSL is part of all major free operating systems and one or two commercial > > ones. You can use it on those systems, thanks to a special clause in the > > GPL. If you want to use it on any other systems, you'll have to c

Re: Licencing issues

2000-11-13 Thread Ulf Moeller
On Tue, Nov 14, 2000, Ulf Moeller wrote: > OpenSSL is part of all major free operating systems and one or two commercial > ones. You can use it on those systems, thanks to a special clause in the > GPL. If you want to use it on any other systems, you'll have to change your > license. Sorry. I f

Re: Licencing issues

2000-11-13 Thread George Staikos
On Monday 13 November 2000 23:54, Ulf Moeller wrote: > > other people must be in this situation too, probably unknowingly. We > > have to resolve this, and if what we are doing is not allowed, it should > > probably be documented in the OpenSSL documentation. > > As far as the OpenSSL team is co

Re: Licencing issues

2000-11-13 Thread Ulf Moeller
On Mon, Nov 13, 2000, George Staikos wrote: > other people must be in this situation too, probably unknowingly. We have to > resolve this, and if what we are doing is not allowed, it should probably be > documented in the OpenSSL documentation. As far as the OpenSSL team is concerned, everybo

Re: Licencing issues

2000-11-13 Thread Michael T. Babcock
George Staikos wrote: > I see you cc:'d to me, but not to Ulf. Those were his words, not mine. No > problem though. Calling it obnoxious is not slandering. It's an opinion and > definitely a criticism. However, this is not the issue here so we can put > that to rest. I did a "Reply to all

Re: Licencing issues

2000-11-13 Thread George Staikos
[I am not speaking for the KDE team as a whole, but for myself as author of the C++ SSL wrapper and utility classes for KDE 2.0] On Monday 13 November 2000 20:22, Michael T. Babcock wrote: > Ulf Moeller wrote: > > On Mon, Nov 13, 2000, George Staikos wrote: > > > (I have emails here if you ne

Re: Licencing issues

2000-11-13 Thread Michael T. Babcock
Ulf Moeller wrote: > On Mon, Nov 13, 2000, George Staikos wrote: > > > (I have emails here if you need to see these) Anyhow, is there > > any chance of OpenSSL being released under GPL, or failing that, under a BSD > > style licence without the advertising clause? > > The original authors now

Re: Licencing issues

2000-11-13 Thread George Staikos
On Monday 13 November 2000 18:35, Ulf Moeller wrote: > On Mon, Nov 13, 2000, George Staikos wrote: > > (I have emails here if you need to see these) Anyhow, is there > > any chance of OpenSSL being released under GPL, or failing that, under a > > BSD style licence without the advertising clause

Re: Licencing issues

2000-11-13 Thread Ulf Moeller
On Mon, Nov 13, 2000, George Staikos wrote: > (I have emails here if you need to see these) Anyhow, is there > any chance of OpenSSL being released under GPL, or failing that, under a BSD > style licence without the advertising clause? The original authors now work for a company that sells