Fwd: NetSurf Licence

[John-Mark Bell]

>
> I actually responded to JMB's original message, but his server bounced my
> message back with a "550 Verification failed for <philpem at philpem.me.uk>,
> Unrouteable address" error. $DEITY knows what's wrong, but it's not a problem
> on my end (I can't find anything wrong with the mail or DNS config on my
> server at least, and his domain is the only one that's ever bounced valid
> mail, citing a domain verification failure).

Hm. Very odd. I'll poke our postmaster appropriately. Thanks.

>>    1) Formalise GPL version 2 as being the GPL version which NetSurf is
>>       licensed under. This may be found at
>>       http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html
>
> GPLv2 is fine by me. It's the version I think most people are familiar with (me
> included).
>
>
>>    2) Come to an agreement about whether to permit the user to relicense
>>       the software under future GPL versions. For reference, GPL version 3
>>       has been recently released. This may be found at
>>       http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.html
>
> I haven't got any opinions either way on adding the "... or any future
> version of the GPL" clause, though I'm a little apprehensive in that if the
> FSF add something that I really don't agree with, I'm kinda stuck. The code I
> submitted was minor, and I'm pretty sure most of it is long gone, but I'm
> ceding judgement to the project leaders here. Basically, this is a "do what
> 'The Team' think is best for the project".
>
>>    3) Include a specific exemption to permit linking against OpenSSL.
>
> I can't see any problem with adding an exemption for OpenSSL.

Thanks for these,


John.