LGPL vs. OCB license

Jan Kiszka jan.kiszka at siemens.com
Wed Dec 20 07:19:42 CET 2017


On 2017-12-15 21:26, Werner Koch wrote:
> On Fri, 15 Dec 2017 20:17, ametzler at bebt.de said:
> 
>> OpenSSL is in a different situation than everybody else, they got a
>> special OCB license without the additional restrictions on top of the
>> OpenSSL license.
> 
> According to private discussions this was on their explicit request to
> make it really clear.  It has already been suggested to the OpenPGP WG
> that we could ask for an explicit license for the OpenPGP protocol.  Why
> not also ask for a similar special license for Libgcrypt?  Well, that
> might end up with explicit licenses for all free software libraries.
> 

That would be the clearest license, of course. Are you planning to try
this, or who could do this?

Jan

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