Hello,

I'm afraid there is an issue stemming from having Pound licensed
under the GPL, and yet linking to the OpenSSL.  Some say it's a valid
concern, some say it's nitpicking on a technicality.  Still, the
result that I care about is that several distributions will pull a
package away or at least castrate its SSL support whenever someone
notices such a license incompatibility.

Thus: could you please include a permission to link Pound with
OpenSSL?  This is so-called "OpenSSL exception", several lines of
text added at the end of the GPL which allow such linking.

A sample text and more information can be found for example on
Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenSSL_exception


Regards,[...]

On Mon, 2006-07-03 at 10:02 +0200, Adam Borowski wrote:[...]

I thought we'd done this more than a year ago - I'll have to look for
the details again.[...]

On Mon, Jul 03, 2006 at 07:39:51PM +0200, Robert Segall wrote:[...]

At least none of the files in Pound-2.0.9.tgz have the exception; every .c
and .h has a GPL header without it and GPL.html doesn't have the exception
either.

I guess it might have simply been accidentally dropped on the way.

Regards,[...]

On Tue, 2006-07-04 at 02:22 +0200, Adam Borowski wrote:[...]

I suppose you are right. In any case it is (back) on the Web page and
the source files - in the next release.[...]