LGPL vs. OCB license

Ineiev ineiev at gnu.org
Wed Dec 20 19:17:13 CET 2017


On Fri, Dec 15, 2017 at 09:26:39PM +0100, 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.

I wonder what FSF's lawyers said about this matter...
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