From dev-return-16824-apmail-apr-dev-archive=apr.apache.org@apr.apache.org Sun Jul 02 00:05:37 2006 Return-Path: Delivered-To: apmail-apr-dev-archive@www.apache.org Received: (qmail 97373 invoked from network); 2 Jul 2006 00:05:37 -0000 Received: from hermes.apache.org (HELO mail.apache.org) (209.237.227.199) by minotaur.apache.org with SMTP; 2 Jul 2006 00:05:37 -0000 Received: (qmail 34422 invoked by uid 500); 2 Jul 2006 00:05:35 -0000 Delivered-To: apmail-apr-dev-archive@apr.apache.org Received: (qmail 33932 invoked by uid 500); 2 Jul 2006 00:05:34 -0000 Mailing-List: contact dev-help@apr.apache.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Id: Delivered-To: mailing list dev@apr.apache.org Received: (qmail 33921 invoked by uid 99); 2 Jul 2006 00:05:34 -0000 Received: from asf.osuosl.org (HELO asf.osuosl.org) (140.211.166.49) by apache.org (qpsmtpd/0.29) with ESMTP; Sat, 01 Jul 2006 17:05:34 -0700 X-ASF-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.5 required=10.0 tests=DNS_FROM_RFC_ABUSE,SPF_PASS X-Spam-Check-By: apache.org Received-SPF: pass (asf.osuosl.org: domain of justin.erenkrantz@gmail.com designates 66.249.92.169 as permitted sender) Received: from [66.249.92.169] (HELO ug-out-1314.google.com) (66.249.92.169) by apache.org (qpsmtpd/0.29) with ESMTP; Sat, 01 Jul 2006 17:05:33 -0700 Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id m3so1259166uge for ; Sat, 01 Jul 2006 17:05:12 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:sender:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references:x-google-sender-auth; b=p0wpGRUxtZQ/yjHXuP+QPKyQBa6HfuTFSPPclO4Ikq9C3/h/JM7ivlanMxVET4NERpiCNEflaSQQS2oZURT1ZErMr58HVZLbqLfb3y6tFU8Rt7VxegMtCEr42nyZ2+9QRgb1yrFfJc54QvROht17thl0s9tGQN+goHOkrteETy8= Received: by 10.66.219.11 with SMTP id r11mr4390622ugg; Sat, 01 Jul 2006 17:05:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.66.248.3 with HTTP; Sat, 1 Jul 2006 17:05:11 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <5c902b9e0607011705t7eecb80dk814da96182dcfb08@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sun, 2 Jul 2006 01:05:11 +0100 From: "Justin Erenkrantz" Sender: justin.erenkrantz@gmail.com To: "Roy T. Fielding" Subject: Re: Proposed Crypto Notification process Cc: "APR Development" , "Cliff Schmidt" In-Reply-To: <04048387-2761-42AA-BAB7-929FD4E26443@gbiv.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <44A4C4EC.7080101@rowe-clan.net> <20060630081212.GA7308@dochas.stdlib.net> <5c902b9e0606300409p1457b3e3w124bfa89aaa39c2e@mail.gmail.com> <44A50AC3.2030608@rowe-clan.net> <5c902b9e0606300537m1bf9c084g3b4779696d515b32@mail.gmail.com> <78BC7C10-1777-439E-BD0F-0D373D7B3253@gbiv.com> <5c902b9e0606302347n4d9bb9e3j74e2c764970cd53c@mail.gmail.com> <04048387-2761-42AA-BAB7-929FD4E26443@gbiv.com> X-Google-Sender-Auth: cc260a7225db0190 X-Virus-Checked: Checked by ClamAV on apache.org X-Spam-Rating: minotaur.apache.org 1.6.2 0/1000/N On 7/1/06, Roy T. Fielding wrote: > If we remove the patent-encumbered code from OpenSSL, then it isn't > OpenSSL and we cannot distribute it or anything built from it under > the TSU exception without distributing the source code exactly as built. > That means we have to distribute the modified OpenSSL library as > something > else *not* called OpenSSL (because otherwise we are violating the > OpenSSL > license). In any case, none of our users want a modified OpenSSL -- > they > can download the real thing on their own. What we should be > redistributing > is a post-install DLL relinking tool so that they can link our windows > binary with whatever they install for SSL, but I have no idea how. Well, removing the patent encumbered bits is just a configure flag to OpenSSL. http://www.openssl.org/support/faq.html#LEGAL1 So, it doesn't require any code changes to the OpenSSL library itself - just how we'd build it. So, I don't see how that'd violate OpenSSL's license... -- justin