Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] ssl decryption patch

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From: Joerg Mayer <jmayer@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2005 19:28:10 +0200
On Wed, Apr 13, 2005 at 04:05:21PM +0200, Thomas Anders wrote:
> >The bigger issue though is that Rescorla's code relies heavily on OpenSSL, 
> >which also includes an advertising clause making it incompatible with the 
> >GPL.  The OpenSSL group will not relicense their code to make it GPL 
> >compatible, so this is a major showstopper.
> 
> Why? As we discussed many times on this list, the GPL is about 
> *distribution*. As long as we don't *distribute* OpenSSL code together with 
> Ethereal (e.g. by linking with OpenSSL libraries), there's no problem. This 
> means, our binary distributions unfortunately can *not* have "SSL 
> decryption" functionality. But anyone *can* build Ethereal with "SSL 
> decryption" from the source distribution.

IMO, this isn't an issue on systems where openssl is a system library,
although the Debian people prefer to have a different opinion.

 ciao
    Joerg
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Joerg Mayer                                           <jmayer@xxxxxxxxx>
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