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  3. February 2002

Re: GPL vs. OpenSSL license

On Tue, 2002-02-05 at 14:46, Scott Klement wrote:
> I mean, do we really want to require an expensive compiler, complicate
> the build environment, and so on just becuase we don't want to add a
> sentence to the license?!

I talked with Jeffrey Steadfast from the Evolution team on IRC and he
said that NSS is simply a nicer API as well as providing the hooks to do
S/MIME functions. So it wasn't that amending the license would have been
the 'wrong way" to do it.

I'd say tweak the license then.

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Steve Fox
IBM Linux Technology Center
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