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The following archive was created by hippie-mail 7.98617-22 on Sat Apr 10 1999 - 01:17:39
Bodo Moeller (Bodo_Moeller@public.uni-hamburg.de)
Mon, 28 Dec 98 02:59 +0100
Rodent of Unusual Size <Ken.Coar@Golux.Com>:
> sameer:
>> C2Net, producer of the popular Stronghold product, in
>> conjunction with Ralf S. Engelschall, author of the popular mod_ssl
>> and mod_rewrite modules for Apache, together announce the creation of
>> the OpenSSL Project.
[...]
> And I can't help but wonder how Ralf intends to deal with the
> legal aspects he claimed would interfere with Ben's project.
As no further explanation was provided on those issues, we'll have to
draw conclusions from the publicly posted messages: While Eric Young's
COPYRIGHT file for the SSLeay distribution says that
The licence and distribution terms for any publically available
version or derivative of this code cannot be changed,
the OpenSSL license (as given in the C2Net announcement) *is* in
obvious ways different from the original SSLeay license. Such changes
are not possibly without Eric's consent. (Of course, they are
possible *with* Eric's consent because he is not bound by the
conditions in the COPYRIGHT file.) This suggests that C2Net or
someone of the OpenSSL group (Ralf, Mark, Paul) simply went and asked
Eric for authorization to start the SSLeay-based OpenSSL project --
which of course is also the only approach consistent with count #1 of
Ralf's charges against Ben (after Ben's December 18 announcement) that
It's not friendly how you force Eric and Tim into making a
public statement on this.
The following archive was created by hippie-mail 7.98617-22 on Sat Apr 10 1999 - 01:17:39