RFC: OpenSSL vs. GNU GPL (affects security/openvpn)?

Matthias Andree ma at dt.e-technik.uni-dortmund.de
Fri May 2 09:08:27 PDT 2003


Matthias Andree <ma at dt.e-technik.uni-dortmund.de> writes:

> it has recently been brought to my attention that the OpenVPN package
> links against both OpenSSL (which is under a BSD-derived license with
> advertising clause) and LZO (which is under the GNU GPL). OpenVPN itself
> includes an exception to the GNU GPL allowing linking against OpenSSL.

No opinions? I'll then forbid binary packages when I update the port
next time (OpenVPN 1.4.0 is due soon).

-- 
Matthias Andree


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