From kde-core-devel Sat May 17 04:50:49 2003 From: Waldo Bastian Date: Sat, 17 May 2003 04:50:49 +0000 To: kde-core-devel Subject: Re: KSSL based S/MIME plugin available X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-core-devel&m=105314719815299 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 17 May 2003 00:12, Ingo Klöcker wrote: > As this isn't a KMail specific problem (kssl is in kdelibs/kio) and as > kde-licensing has vanished (at least > http://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo doesn't know anything about this > mailing list) I move this discussion to kde-core-devel. > > Is there a license problem with OpenSSL or not? OpenSSL comes with advertisement clauses that might cause problems yes: "3. All advertising materials mentioning features or use of this software * must display the following acknowledgement: * "This product includes cryptographic software written by * Eric Young (eay@cryptsoft.com)" and * 3. All advertising materials mentioning features or use of this * software must display the following acknowledgment: * "This product includes software developed by the OpenSSL Project * for use in the OpenSSL Toolkit. (http://www.openssl.org/)" One could be of the opinion that this puts a legal obligation on applications like e.g. KMail. The question whether KMail is a derived work of OpenSSL is irrelevant in that respect since the license only speaks of "use of this software". I think it's the opinion of the FSF that such additional obligation is incompatible with the GPL. Cheers, Waldo - -- bastian@kde.org -=|[ SuSE, The Linux Desktop Experts ]|=- bastian@suse.com -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE+xb+pN4pvrENfboIRAowUAKCeGCtTUr3PmerB5pQfSOcylKfIjwCgp3sJ YEJiEclAejdij2oZTLO1iEU= =jW4D -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----