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

[Peter Bloomfield <PeterBloomfield bellsouth net>]

On 2002.12.19 18:45 Andrew Lau wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 19, 2002 at 05:47:23PM +0100, Steffen Klemer wrote:
>> 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.
> 
> So should I do so, or can someone from Balsa-devel please 
> volunteer to handle the contact effort? Yours sincerely,
> Andrew "Netsnipe" Lau

Andrew:

Does debian legal have an opinion on how far a project needs to 
go, in getting agreement on such an exception?  Theirs would seem 
to be the pivotal decision.

Peter