Re: [Monotone-devel] Future of monotone

[Nuno Lucas]

On Jan 29, 2008 9:41 AM, Patrick Georgi <address@hidden> wrote:
> Take a hard look at licensing.
>
> libssl was (last time I looked) 4-clause bsd licensed (bsd +
> advertising), and thus triggered the license incompatibility mode of the
> GPL.
>
> There might be some GNU/GPL rewrite of it - at least something along
> that lines was planned. But given that other libssl-using GPL sources
> aren't build against such a replacement in the Debian repository (eg.
> netatalk), I might be mistaken on it (or that project just isn't far
> enough yet)

Could "dropbear" (a lightweight SSH2 server and client) be of help here?
I have no experience handling various licenses, but a brief look into
it's LICENSES file seem to indicate it's not incompatible with the GPL
(didn't see any advertising clause).


Regards,
~Nuno Lucas

> Regards,
> Patrick Georgi