[Openvas-distro] Fwd: openvas-libnasl_1.0.0-3_i386.changes REJECTED

Jan-Oliver Wagner jan-oliver.wagner at intevation.de
Tue May 27 09:34:38 CEST 2008


On Freitag, 23. Mai 2008, Tim Brown wrote:
> More licensing woes.  openvas-libnasl source appears to be licensed as GPLv2 
> with SSL exclusion.  What's the best way to resolve this?  AFAIK, the SSL 
> exclusion isn't relevent since we compile against GNU TLS, but I imagine we 
> need to update the license file express the license of the code and explain 
> we don't use OpenSSL?

funny situation indeed.
The actual license is "GPL + OpenSSL exception" and since we
are not the copyrright holder we may not change that.
So better add a note as you proposed saying that this is inherited
from old Nessus times.

Best

	Jan

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