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Re: [Savannah-register-public] [task #7673] Submission of tpop3d
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Sylvain Beucler |
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Re: [Savannah-register-public] [task #7673] Submission of tpop3d |
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Sat, 26 Jan 2008 01:49:55 +0100 |
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Mutt/1.5.17 (2007-11-01) |
Hi,
Maybe you should answer him?
https://savannah.gnu.org/task/index.php?7673
Cheers,
--
Sylvain
On Thu, Jan 24, 2008 at 10:45:55AM +0100, Sylvain Beucler wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Wed, Jan 23, 2008 at 09:44:03PM +0200, Alexander Shulgin wrote:
> > On Jan 22, 2008 9:29 PM, Sylvain Beucler <address@hidden> wrote:
> > > Hi Alexander,
> > >
> > > Exercise: Arkadiusz says he switches to 'GPL plus OpenSSL exception' -
> > > can you see why this won't work? :)
> >
> > Hi Sylvain,
> >
> > Uh... not sure, but may be because redistribution still violates
> > section 2.b) of GPLv2?
>
> The exception alone is ok (it's documented in the GPL FAQ after all).
>
> In this case though, his GPL'd code has the exception but other GPL'd
> code (his dependencies) do not - so that violates the license of his
> dependencies.
>
> > Alex
> > PS: my disbelief in applicability of copyright to software is growing
> > higher than ever... :-/
>
> It seems to work ok with proprietary software. For free software, we
> want something that works for "anyone, anywhere", so it's somewhat
> more complicated.
>
> But here, it's rather that the openssl team made a terrible licensing
> job :/
>
> --
> Sylvain
- [Savannah-register-public] [task #7673] Submission of tpop3d, Arkadiusz Miskiewicz, 2008/01/12
- [Savannah-register-public] [task #7673] Submission of tpop3d, Alexander Shulgin, 2008/01/19
- [Savannah-register-public] [task #7673] Submission of tpop3d, Alexander Shulgin, 2008/01/22
- [Savannah-register-public] [task #7673] Submission of tpop3d, Arkadiusz Miskiewicz, 2008/01/22
- Re: [Savannah-register-public] [task #7673] Submission of tpop3d, Sylvain Beucler, 2008/01/22
- Re: [Savannah-register-public] [task #7673] Submission of tpop3d, Alexander Shulgin, 2008/01/23
- Re: [Savannah-register-public] [task #7673] Submission of tpop3d, Sylvain Beucler, 2008/01/24
- Re: [Savannah-register-public] [task #7673] Submission of tpop3d,
Sylvain Beucler <=
- Re: [Savannah-register-public] [task #7673] Submission of tpop3d, Alexander Shulgin, 2008/01/26
- [Savannah-register-public] [task #7673] Submission of tpop3d, Alexander Shulgin, 2008/01/26
- [Savannah-register-public] [task #7673] Submission of tpop3d, Arkadiusz Miskiewicz, 2008/01/27
- [Savannah-register-public] Fwd: [task #7673] Submission of tpop3d, Alexander Shulgin, 2008/01/31
- [Savannah-register-public] Re: Fwd: [task #7673] Submission of tpop3d, Sylvain Beucler, 2008/01/31
- [Savannah-register-public] Re: Fwd: [task #7673] Submission of tpop3d, Alexander Shulgin, 2008/01/31