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Looking the OpenSSL gift horse in the mouthLooking the OpenSSL gift horse in the mouthPosted Sep 26, 2002 10:49 UTC (Thu) by nix (subscriber, #2304)Parent article: Looking the OpenSSL gift horse in the mouth It may be worse than that; as Wichert Akkerman points out in <http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2002/debian-legal-200209/msg00183.html>, the Sun-contributed code may not be modifiable at all without risking being sued by Sun for patent infringement; and Markus Friedl pointed out in the thread to which you linked that large chunks of the OpenSSL engine are infected by this change, including critical stuff like bn.h, rendering them nonmodifiable as well. So this change may make much of the OpenSSL core thoroughly non-free.
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