[Gluster-devel] glusterfs-3.3.0qa34 released

[Patrick Matthäi]

Am 11.04.2012 14:15, schrieb Kaleb S. KEITHLEY:
> On 04/10/2012 04:42 PM, Patrick Matthäi wrote:
>> b) Older but problematic licensing problem. The openssl license is not
>> compatible with GPL{1,2,3}, so on glusterfs(!) needs to add an licensing
>> exception.
>> See: http://ftp-master.debian.org/REJECT-FAQ.html
>> Point: OpenSSL
>
> Bear in mind that this is only the first step to separate out a
> libglusterfs-client library licensed under LGPL for third parties to use
> to write extensions to GlusterFS. The intent is to use OpenSSL APIs only
> in code that resides in the LGPLed library.

Ah, if it is only used in LGPL code then this is no problem, thanks for 
your clarification.

> The link you reference indicates that it's okay to use OpenSSL "... if
> upstream gave a license exception for this...".
>
> Offhand I'd say that upstream, i.e. Red Hat and Gluster.org, are giving
> a license exception; we probably ought to explicitly indicate that
> somewhere before we ship GA. (This link
> http://people.gnome.org/~markmc/openssl-and-the-gpl.html has suggestions
> for how to do that if we need to.)

Yes it just would be enough - in the case that openssl is used in the 
future with GPL code - to add a file like "COPYING.OpenSSL" and add your 
exception.