Re: Bacula and OpenSSL (original) (raw)

On Saturday 14 July 2007 11:03, Simon Josefsson wrote:

Kern Sibbald kern@sibbald.com writes:

GPL + OpenSSL exception would be enough to be sure. You may have more luck convincing copyright owners to grant an OpenSSL exception than to accept an entirely new license.

I am told that FSF never grants exceptions so this is a hopeless path that I have already explored.

That is incorrect. The FSF has granted OpenSSL license exceptions to some software that links to OpenSSL. For example, GNU wget.

Interesting. Shane would you comment on this?

Exactly what FSF code are you using? It couldn't hurt to ask them. If it is general purpose code, I suspect they won't give it, but if it is network or even TLS related, there could be a chance.

Well, it is pretty general purpose. None of the FSF code is network or TLS related. The FSF files involved are:

src/lib/fnmatch.h FSF src/lib/fnmatch.c FSF src/lib/enh_fnmatch.h FSF src/lib/enh_fnmatch.c FSF (fnmatch enhanced by us)

src/lib/idcache.c FSF (from tar I think) src/findlib/save-cwd.c FSF (from tar I think) src/findlib/makepath.c FSF (from tar I think)

In addition, there are two files copyrighted by Anders Carlsson, two by Sun Microsystems in the tray-monitor directory, and a number of files by AT&T all in the win32 subdirectories.

My status on this "project" is:

Regards,

Kern

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