Re: Bacula and OpenSSL (original) (raw)

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Hi Kern

Kern Sibbald wrote:

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

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?

As Simon said, in certain special circumstances selected GNU tools related to networking have been granted exceptions. I suggest that such a grant is not likely in the case of the general purpose code included with Bacula.

However, please bear in mind that I don't speak for FSF :)

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.

All of the authors of third-party code would need to be contacted for a linking exception, though from your last email it sounds like you have already removed a substantial amount of the third-party code.

I have some availability this week. I could do a physical meeting or a phone call during Wednesday and Thursday afternoon if you think it would be useful. :)

Regards

Shane

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