Re: [PATCH] Libressl

[Andreas Enge <andreas@enge.fr>]

On Mon, Jun 15, 2015 at 05:16:06PM -0400, Mark H Weaver wrote:
> The license you pasted is the original SSLeay License, whereas
> <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#OpenSSL> says:
>   The license of OpenSSL is a conjunction of two licenses, one of them
>   being the license of SSLeay.  You must follow both.  [...]
> 
> However, I see now that this is a bit confusing, and we made a mistake
> in our 'license' field of our OpenSSL package.  My casual reading of the
> above text led me believe that the "OpenSSL License" is itself a
> conjunction of the two licenses, but I see that
> <http://directory.fsf.org/wiki/License:OpenSSL> does not include the
> SSLeay license.
> 
> So, I think we should add 'ssleay' to (guix licenses) and then add it to
> the license field of 'openssl' along with a comment explaining that the
> requirements of both (all?) licenses must be followed.

So this looks essentially like a bug in
   https://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#OpenSSL
Would you like to report it (where?)?
Then it would be good if the SSLeay license could be added as
   org/wiki/License:...
before we add it to our license collection.

Andreas