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  3. February 2002

GPL vs. OpenSSL license

Sorry to be the bearer of bad news about laws etc. again, but I've
realised that, due to the interaction between the advertising clause
in the OpenSSL license (conditions 3 and 6), and section 6 of the GNU
GPL, nobody is actually allowed to distribute binaries of tn5250.

This applies to the license on tn5250.c; I'm not sure how it interacts
with the sort-of-GPL on the source for lib5250, but I think the
exception just defers to the license on tn5250.c.

The only way out of this, as far as I know, is for the copyright
holder(s) of the GPL bits of tn5250 to change the license.
Possibilities are to use a less restrictive license like the LGPL (or
MIT or BSD license) instead, or to add an exception for OpenSSL like
some of KDE has for Qt.

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         Carey Evans  http://home.clear.net.nz/pages/c.evans/

                             Cavem canus.

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