License for nnrpd's SSL support
Kenichi Okada
okada at opaopa.org
Sun Jul 30 16:37:54 UTC 2000
In the message "License for nnrpd's SSL support"
<yld7jwjkw3.fsf at windlord.stanford.edu>
Russ Allbery <rra at stanford.edu> wrote:
> In looking through the INN tree today, I noticed that nnrpd/tls.c and
> nnrpd/sasl_config.c claim to be under the GPL. That actually poses a
> licensing problem for INN, since we can't include GPL'd code without
> releasing all of INN under the GPL, which we don't want to do. I'm
> guessing that you'd put the GPL on those files without realizing that.
I do not mind to change the license on those files to the same
as the license of INN.
> Also, I notice that the comments indicate that a few of the routines are
> based on OpenSSL code. If this is correct, we need to correctly attribute
> those portions as that too affects the license.
My code is based on cyrus-imapd and qmail-starttls.patch(*)
which is based on postfix-tls-19991231-pl02+0.51(*).
I do not know what license the qmail-starttls.patch attributes. :(
(*) ftp://opaopa.org/pub/archives/net/
Thank you.
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Kenichi Okada
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