Why the OpenSSL license can't change

Posted Feb 18, 2011 4:43 UTC (Fri) by foom (subscriber, #14868)
In reply to: Why the OpenSSL license can't change by BrucePerens
Parent article: PostgreSQL, OpenSSL, and the GPL

Now you've gotten me interested. :) I can't find any other references on the internet. People around Dec 1998 say Eric Young won't be working on it anymore, but there's no more details...

http://www.mail-archive.com/openssl-users@openssl.org/msg...
http://marc.info/?l=apache-ssl&m=91399607525631&w=1
http://marc.info/?l=ssl-users&m=91399693926181&w=1

Perhaps it was a condition of his employment by RSA, working on a commercial SSL implementation, that he never again touch his open source SSLeay project. Or maybe Australia decided to prosecute him for dealing in "weapons" (crypto) afterall, like the first link said, and it was a condition of dropping the case that he never work on it again.