Re: [Bug-wget] Overly permissive hostname matching

[Jeffrey Walton]

On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 6:11 PM, Daniel Stenberg <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Thu, 20 Mar 2014, Tim Rühsen wrote:
>
>> I broke out the public suffix code together and created a first go (really
>> very quick, distcheck fails - couldn't figure out this evening).
>>
>> https://github.com/rockdaboot/libpsl
>
>
> Ok, I'll be the first to rain on the parade. Sorry but it seems fit to do
> this early.
>
> You do realize that with a *GPL license on the thing, you won't get adopted
> by OpenSSL, curl and possibly others?
+1

> I can't prevent you of course and the decision is yours to make, but I'd
> prefer a BSD style license as then I could really consider basing future
> enhancements of curl on this effort.
Does GNU have a permissive license? I know permissive does not meet
all of Dr. Stallman's goals, but it will allow GNU more intellectual
property in the arena.

Jeff