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

[David Frascone <dave@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Ok, what about another direction.  What if, at runtime, an attempt to
open openssl is done.  Would that taint the GPL?

In other words, no dependencies, but dynamic loading at runtime, if it is
in the library path.  That way, we can *assume* that the library is prexisting
on the system, and we do not rely on it's existance at all.

Check how packet-diameter.c checks for and loads libxml2.  It is completely
outisde of the build process, and a runtime only check.

-Dave

On Sunday, 24 Mar 2002, Joerg Mayer wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 23, 2002 at 08:41:53AM -0600, David Frascone wrote:
> > What about just rough concensus of this list?  I think that would be
> > sufficient to change the license.  It's obviously enough to change the
> > code.
> 
> I'm quite sure you are mistaken on that one: The GPL explicitely gives
> anyone abiding to the GPL the right to modify the code covered by it.
> It does NOT give the right to change the copyright to something violating
> the current copyright. We *really* need to contact everyone and get their
> permission - see the efforts of the Mozilla project to change their
> license from MPL to GPL/other1/other2 
> 
>   Ciao
>           J?rg
> 
> --
> Joerg Mayer                                          <jmayer@xxxxxxxxx>
> I found out that "pro" means "instead of" (as in proconsul). Now I know
> what proactive means.
> 

-- 
David Frascone

             Useless Invention: Fireproof kindling.