[Pkg-openssl-devel] Why is OpenSSL not in non-free?

[Benjamin M. A'Lee]

On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 12:46:03PM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> - the 3-clause BSD license is considered free
> - the 4-clause BSD license with the advertising clause is considered
>   non-free
> - both the OpenSSL License and the Original SSLeay License in 
>   /usr/share/doc/libssl0.9.8/copyright contain the BSD advertising 
>   clause in its exact wording
> 
> Does OpenSSL have to go to non-free, or do I miss anything?

It's not GPL-compatible. This is not the same as non-free.

http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#OriginalBSD

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