<font face="Default Sans Serif,Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif" size="2"> <span><br>OpenSSL has a LOT of commercial users and contributors. Apache2 they can live with, GPL not so much. <br>There's also the point that many of the big consumers (like Apache :)) are also under Apache2. <br><br>Least possible breakage and I think it's a reasonable compromise. Of course I am biased because I work for the one of the commercial users.<br><br>Peter<br></span><br><font color="#990099">-----"openssl-dev" <<a href="mailto:openssl-dev-bounces@openssl.org" target="_blank">openssl-dev-bounces@openssl.org</a>> wrote: -----</font><div class="iNotesHistory" style="padding-left:5px;"><div style="padding-right:0px;padding-left:5px;border-left:solid black 2px;">To: <a href="mailto:openssl-dev@openssl.org" target="_blank">openssl-dev@openssl.org</a><br>From: Richard Moore <richmoore44@gmail.com><br>Sent by: "openssl-dev" <openssl-dev-bounces@openssl.org><br>Date: 03/24/2017 07:34AM<br>Subject: Re: [openssl-dev] License change agreement<br><br><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 23 March 2017 at 18:04, Salz, Rich via openssl-dev <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:openssl-dev@openssl.org" target="_blank">openssl-dev@openssl.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class="">> The new license also conflicts with the GPLv2. This was immediately brought<br>> up as a serious problem when this discussion began in July of 2015. It<br>> appears that the feedback that the APL does not solve these serious<br>> problems with how OpenSSL was licensed was ignored. Sad to see that.<br><br></span>No it was not ignored. (Just because we disagree doesn't mean we ignore the feedback.) The team felt that the Apache license better met our needs.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">It's a fairly large elephant in the room that the press release does not address at all though. I think it's reasonable to expect some kind of reasoning.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Cheers</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Rich.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div></div></div></div><div><font size="2" face="Courier New,Courier,monospace">-- <br>openssl-dev mailing list<br>To unsubscribe: <a href="https://mta.openssl.org/mailman/listinfo/openssl-dev">https://mta.openssl.org/mailman/listinfo/openssl-dev</a><br></font></div></openssl-dev-bounces@openssl.org></richmoore44@gmail.com></div></div></font><BR>