[openssl-dev] License change agreement

[Otto Moerbeek]

On Fri, Mar 24, 2017 at 08:21:49AM +0100, Marcus Meissner wrote:

> On Fri, Mar 24, 2017 at 07:48:58AM +0100, Otto Moerbeek wrote:
> > On Fri, Mar 24, 2017 at 04:11:48AM +0000, Blumenthal, Uri - 0553 - MITLL wrote:
> > 
> > > Apache license is fine for me, while GPL could be problematic. Incompatibility with GPLv2 is not a problem for us. 
> > > 
> > > If it is a problem for somebody - feel free to explain the details. Though I think the decision has been made, and the majority is OK with it. 
> > 
> > I like to mention that any license change cannot be made based on a
> > majority vote or any other method other than getting each author (or
> > its legal representative) to *explicitly* allow the change. The method
> > of "nothing heard equals consent" is not valid in any jurisdiction I
> > know of.
> > 
> > While I'm not a contributor (I think I only sent in a small diff years
> > ago), I would like to stress that the planned relicensing procedure is
> > not legal and can be challenged in court.
> 
> Well, emails were sent yesterday out to _all_ contributors for ack/deny the change.
> 
> Ciao, Marcus
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Read the last line of the mail, it says the no reactions equals
consent. That is the illegal part.

	-Otto