Re: ANNOUNCE: OpenSSL (Take 2)

William H. Geiger III (whgiii@openpgp.net)
Fri, 08 Jan 1999 08:44:42 -0500

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In <19990108043042.29355.qmail@hades.rpini.com>, on 01/08/99
   at 04:30 AM, Anonymous <nobody@remailer.ch> said:

>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?

Some mention of exactly what the difference is between the Open Source
license and the current SSLeay license would be helpfull along with an
explination for the change.

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