From kde-core-devel Sat May 17 16:08:18 2003 From: George Staikos Date: Sat, 17 May 2003 16:08:18 +0000 To: kde-core-devel Subject: Re: KSSL based S/MIME plugin available X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-core-devel&m=105318778703826 On Saturday 17 May 2003 00:50, Waldo Bastian wrote: > > 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. Yes we've been through this many times before. It can't be changed, everyone (including OpenSSL devels) know it's a problem. Given that anything can use KSSL if it uses KIO, where do we stop? I think it's stupid to plaster all of KDE with this. Once place in kdelibs/kdebase is sufficient IMHO. We have kdelibs/kio/kssl/README and I thought that konqueror or konqueror.org mentioned it once as well. I can't find it anymore though. -- George Staikos KDE Developer http://www.kde.org/ Staikos Computing Services Inc. http://www.staikos.net/