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The following archive was created by hippie-mail 7.98617-22 on Sat Apr 10 1999 - 01:18:02
Ralf S. Engelschall (rse@engelschall.com)
Fri, 8 Jan 1999 11:41:30 +0100
On Fri, Jan 08, 1999, Anonymous wrote:
> Ben Laurie <ben@algroup.co.uk> wrote:
>
> > 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 SSLeay license would seem to explicitely prohibit that ("The
> licence and distribution terms for any publically available version or
> derivative of this code cannot be changed. i.e. this code cannot
> simply be copied and put under another distribution licence [including
> the GNU Public Licence.]"). Would you care to clarifiy whether this is
> being done with the permission of the copyright holder?
The original license of SSLeay says you cannot change the license for it. Ok,
but it allows modifications. And those modifications can be put under a
different license, of course. The distribution issue is not affected by this
as long as the additional license doesn't allow something the original SSLeay
license forbids (i.e. a conflict of license terms is not allowed). That's not
the case, because the OpenSSL license is less restrictive than the SSLeay
license.
Ralf S. Engelschall
rse@engelschall.com
www.engelschall.com
The following archive was created by hippie-mail 7.98617-22 on Sat Apr 10 1999 - 01:18:02