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

[Peter Bloomfield <PeterBloomfield bellsouth net>]

On 2002.12.19 05:14 Carlos Morgado wrote:
> 
> 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 :)

I have no problem with it. I'm intrigued by the gnutls 
alternative, though: if it works and would allow us to go back to 
a clean GPL, I believe we should look into it.

Peter