Re: [apache-ssl] ANNOUNCE: OpenSSL (Take 2)

Dave Burgess (burgess@neonramp.com)
Wed, 06 Jan 1999 21:03:57 -0600

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EXCELLENT!!!!!!

Thank you guys for doing this. This is fantastic!

At 10:03 PM 1/6/99 +0000, Ben Laurie wrote:
>___ ____ ____ _
> / _ \ _ __ ___ _ __ / ___/ ___|| | OpenSSL
> | | | | '_ \/ _ \ '_ \\___ \___ \| | The Open Source toolkit for
SSL/TLS
> | |_| | |_) | __/ | | |___) |__) | |___ http://www.openssl.org/
> \___/| .__/\___|_| |_|____/____/|_____|
> _____ |_|
__________________________________________________________________
>
> The OpenSSL Project is a collaborative effort to develop a robust,
> commercial-grade, fully featured, and Open Source toolkit implementing the
> Secure Sockets Layer (SSL v2/v3) and Transport Layer Security (TLS v1)
> protocols with full-strength cryptography world-wide. The project is
managed
> by a worldwide community of volunteers that use the Internet to
communicate,
> plan, and develop the OpenSSL tookit and its related documentation.
>
> OpenSSL is based on the excellent SSLeay library developed by Eric A. Young
> and Tim J. Hudson. The OpenSSL toolkit is licensed under an Apache-style
> licence, which basically means that you are free to get and use it for
> commercial and non-commercial purposes subject to some simple license
> conditions.
>
>o Due to some unfortunate coincidences and misunderstandings Ben and Stephen
> launched an effort to maintain and improve SSLeay shortly before the
OpenSSL
> effort was announced. These were seen as competing efforts - this was never
> really true, so the two efforts have been merged together in the interests
> of the user community.
>
>o The core participants in the joint effort are currently (in alphabetical
> order):
>
> Ben Laurie
> Mark Cox
> Paul Sutton
> Ralf Engelschall
> Stephen Henson
>
> This group jointly control the direction of the OpenSSL project in a way
> similar to the way the Apache Group works. Others may be invited to join in
> the future on the basis of merit.
>
>o Contributions are welcome, and will be appropriately credited. The
source is
> in a CVS repository which can be mirrored through
> rsync://dev.openssl.org/openssl-cvs/ or browsed interactively through a Web
> interface under http://www.openssl.org/source/cvs/. Contributors are
> encouraged to generate patches based on the latest available version.
>
>o The original announcement left some doubt as to the role of C2Net in the
> OpenSSL project. They donated the code which we used as a basis. This code
> was developed by Eric Young and Tim Hudson when they worked for C2Net. They
> do not manage the OpenSSL project, and are only involved to the extent that
> some of their staff (Mark and Paul) are participants.
>
>o The OpenSSL project's code will be published under an Open Source license.
> This license will apply only to the modifications made by the OpenSSL team
> and contributors. Eric's original license will apply to the underlying
SSLeay
> code base. The CVS tree will be available to anyone who wants it, and we
will
> be endeavouring to release much more frequently than SSLeay was.
>
>o There are a number of mailing lists (openssl-XXX@openssl.org) available:
>
> openssl-announce Announcements
> openssl-cvs CVS Commit Messages
> openssl-dev Developer Forum
> openssl-users User Support Forum
>
> Subscribe to these by sending mail to majordomo@openssl.org with:
>
> subscribe <list name> <your email address>
>
> as the body.
>
>o We hope to make the next release of OpenSSL available in the next few
weeks.
> In the meantime, please do pick up a snapshot and report any bugs you find.
>
>o If you have fixes or improvements, send them to us!
>
> Yours,
>
> The OpenSSL Project Team... Mark J. Cox
> Ralf S. Engelschall
> Dr. Stephen Henson
> Ben Laurie
> Paul C. Sutton
>
>--
>http://www.apache-ssl.org/ben.html
>
>"My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those
>who work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the
>first group; there was less competition there."
> - Indira Gandhi
>
>

--
Dave Burgess                   Network Engineer - Nebraska On-Ramp, Inc.
*bsd FAQ Maintainer / SysAdmin for the NetBSD system in my spare bedroom
"Just because something is stupid doesn't mean there isn't someone that
doesn't want to do it...."  

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