Sendmail license in kinit

[Alex Merry]

On Thursday 10 May 2007, Matthew Woehlke wrote:
> Alex Merry wrote:
> > Also, the ProFTPd license has an exemption for distributing with
> > OpenSSL.  Obviously, that doesn't apply to kdeinit.  I seem to
> > remember that such exemptions can be discarded by redistributors,
> > but can someone confirm this?  If so, I'll get rid of it, because
> > it's pointless in this context.
>
> I'm pretty sure fsf.org has dealt with this question before; you
> probably want to check the GPL FAQ (I think they also have a forum
> for asking this sort of licensing question).

Thanks for the pointer - I thought I'd read it somewhere.

http://www.fsf.org/licensing/licenses/gpl-faq.html#GPLIncompatibleLibs

The exception doesn't need to be extended.  I'll remove it, since it 
just confuses things.

Alex



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