Hi Theo, Theo de Raadt wrote on Thu, Mar 23, 2017 at 10:18:26AM -0600:
> Lots of people have been receiving emails like the one below. > > They have never asked the community of authors what they want. > > I think OpenSSL are using a github "garbage-in / garbage-out" style of > process. Feel free to dig into what they think I am author of, and > why. > > We wrote some tools to look through every version of our files, and > our scripts found your email address. You can see what we found: > > https://license.openssl.org/cgi-bin/lookup.py?uid=619 ROFL... :-D Maybe they should just revert https://github.com/openssl/openssl/commit/58964a492275ca9a59a0cd9c8155cb2491b4b909 and be done with it. :-D > The start suggests they want to privately collect sufficient consensus > to pass their agenda. They appear to be considering all actions in > the tree (including mine) on equal grounds. I already sent them a clear "NO, i explicitly object to relicensing any of my contributions." If any of you care about the possibility of merging future OpenSSL improvements to LibreSSL and OpenBSD, i suggest you do the same. Similarly, if any of you dislike publishing their own code under Apache 2. > The last sentence suggests they don't care at all about the rights of > the authors. I also sent them a separate mail stating that i strongly suspect that last sentence to be grossly illegal in almost any jurisdiction. Yours, Ingo
