They're actually under what most would consider a "modified BSD style
license". This means it doesn't have the advertising clause. Their
license isn't incompatible with the OpenSSL license.
Looks like they're right. This is a classic case where A can link
against B and B can link against C, but that doesn't mean A can link
against C.
That said, it looks like the Ethereal group cannot ship a product that
makes use of the Net-SNMP library if it includes the SSL support.
Devin
On Fri, 2004-06-04 at 10:09, Thomas Anders wrote:
> Biot Olivier wrote:
> > |From: Thomas Anders
> > |
> > |Still, (UCD|Net)-SNMP depends on OpenSSL for SNMPv3 support,
> > |which affects us when using "--with-(ucd|net)-snmp".
> >
> > But then either *-SNMP has a license that complies with the OpenSSL
> > license, or they have the same issue we have. Either way, we have a
> > problem.
>
> I asked the Net-SNMP developers about this and they replied:
>
> "OpenSSL and Net-SNMP both use a BSDish license, so there is no
> conflict on our side."
>
> Their license actually has 5 parts and is available at:
> http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/*checkout*/net-snmp/net-snmp/COPYING?rev=5.2.2.3
>
> Comments?
>
>
> +Thomas
>
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