Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] RADIUS's "Message Authenticator"

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From: Adam <adam@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 23 Mar 2002 04:01:31 -0500 (EST)
> The Ethereal authors are free to add exceptions to the GPL to their
> license as they please. Something like "Ethereal is licensed under
> the GNU General Public License version 2, with the added exception
> that you may link Ethereal with OpenSSL." This is the sort of
> terminology used by KDE when Qt was not GPL.
>
> Practically speaking, all the authors of Ethereal would need
> to agree to the change in the license (to add this exception).

it seems to me like there are no downsides for this solution, apart
from having to contact every author.

According to AUTHORS file it would be 188 ppl. With some probably on
vacations, or not having valid emails anymore :(

-- 
Adam
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