Re: Balsa: Indirect linking to OpenSSL via LGPL and OpenLDAP libs

[Steffen Klemer <masterofheap gmx net>]

Am 2002.12.19 11:14 schrieb(en) Carlos Morgado:
> 
> On 2002.12.19 09:20:50 +0000 Andrew Lau wrote:
>> Dear Peter,
>> 	So how should I go about trying to convince Balsa to add an
>> OpenSSL exclusion clause to its license? Doing so would not weaken any
>> protections that Balsa already has under the normal GPL. Would the
>> consent of the versions 2.0 authors (from file): Emmanuel Allaud,
>> Carlos Morgado, Pawel Salek and yourself (Peter Bloomfield) be enough?
>> 
> 
> I don't think there's a lot of convincing to do, I for one don't opose it
> nor i think Pawel does (but he's otherwise busy so we haven't heard much
> from him). Peter doesn't seem to mind, Emmanuel ?
> Am I missing someone who feels strongly against it and has copyright 
> over balsa
> code ?
> 
> I still want to get OK from Stuart Parmenter, the original balsa 
> developer.
> I'm sure he has no problems with it but it doesn't hurt to ask :)
> 

No, I don't think that this will be 'nough.
It should also be no problem to send the mail to all listet in the Authors 
file and wait for a negative response, if no one disagrees it'll be ok. 
That is a "reasonable effort" I think of. Everybody contributed code under 
the terms of the GPL, so nobody can assume that everybody will also agree 
to the exception.

cu
/Steffen

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