Re: [htdig-dev] Problems linking htdig (3.1.6) to the OpenSSL library..

[Neal R. <ne...@ri...>]

This doesn't look like an issue to me if all we need to do is add the 
following to the GPL license:

  * In addition, as a special exception, the copyright holders give
  * permission to link the code of portions of this program with the
  * OpenSSL library under certain conditions as described in each
  * individual source file, and distribute linked combinations
  * including the two.
  * You must obey the GNU General Public License in all respects
  * for all of the code used other than OpenSSL.  If you modify
  * file(s) with this exception, you may extend this exception to your
  * version of the file(s), but you are not obligated to do so.  If you
  * do not wish to do so, delete this exception statement from your
  * version.  If you delete this exception statement from all source
  * files in the program, then also delete it here.

I'll raise this issue on the members list and get back to you.

FYI: I never heard back from Kevin Ruddy @ Powerdog on our strptime.c 
conflict.  I'll try one more time and if I get no reponse we'll move to 
another strptime implemenation.

Thanks Robert.

Neal Richter 
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On Tue, 17 Aug 2004, Robert Ribnitz wrote:

> Hi list..
>
> as the debian maintainer of htdig I am responsible for its presence in 
> debian, but I am also the first-hand support guy to contact when there is a 
> bug.
>
> A while ago, there was the enable htdig to support SSL ('https') requests, 
> which to my knowledge is only possible using the OpenSSL library. Htdig 3.1.6 
> is license under the GPL, V2, the 3.2.0 branch will sail under LGPL..
>
> While this is technically no problem, there seem to be licensing issues.
>
> Could you look at
>
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=133086
>
> and tell me whether it would be possible to find a solution similar to
>
> http://www.gnome.org/~markmc/openssl-and-the-gpl.html
>
> Thanks
>
> Robert
>
>
>
>
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