Re: [Savannah-register-public] [task #7673] Submission of tpop3d

[Sylvain Beucler]

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