Relicensing OpenSSL
Relicensing OpenSSL
[Development] Posted Mar 24, 2017 11:27 UTC (Fri) by corbet
Back in 2015, the OpenSSL project announced its
intent to move away from its rather quirky license. Now it has announced
that the
change is moving forward. "After careful review, consultation
with other projects, and input from the Core Infrastructure Initiative and
legal counsel from the SFLC, the OpenSSL team decided to relicense the code
under the widely-used ASLv2.
" It is worth noting that this change
and the way it is being pursued are not universally popular, in the OpenBSD camp, at least.