Re: [Gnu-arch-users] arch + webdav + https ?

[Cameron Patrick]

Miles Bader wrote:

| On Tue, Mar 09, 2004 at 09:07:08AM +0100, Jan Hudec wrote:
| > Look at the wiki (gnuarch.org). It says that HTTPS support is disabled
| > in the configure script. It says that the reason is legal -- OpenSSL
| > license is incompatible with GPL (It's a BSD-style license).
| 
| The (normal 3 clause) BSD license is _not_ incompatibile with the GPL.
| 
| Maybe there's some weird import/export restriction worry?  That was the
| traditional reason why encryption code got treated with kid gloves, but I
| thought that stuff had all been lifted recently...

It's not a normal 3-clause licence though.  It has an advertising
clause, and doesn't allow derivative works to be called "OpenSSL".
That isn't compatible with the GPL.

Cameron.