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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] arch + webdav + https ?
From: |
Cameron Patrick |
Subject: |
Re: [Gnu-arch-users] arch + webdav + https ? |
Date: |
Fri, 12 Mar 2004 16:06:15 +0800 |
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Mutt/1.5.5.1+cvs20040105+cjp-1i |
Miles Bader wrote:
| On Tue, Mar 09, 2004 at 09:07:08AM +0100, Jan Hudec wrote:
| > Look at the wiki (gnuarch.org). It says that HTTPS support is disabled
| > in the configure script. It says that the reason is legal -- OpenSSL
| > license is incompatible with GPL (It's a BSD-style license).
|
| The (normal 3 clause) BSD license is _not_ incompatibile with the GPL.
|
| Maybe there's some weird import/export restriction worry? That was the
| traditional reason why encryption code got treated with kid gloves, but I
| thought that stuff had all been lifted recently...
It's not a normal 3-clause licence though. It has an advertising
clause, and doesn't allow derivative works to be called "OpenSSL".
That isn't compatible with the GPL.
Cameron.