![]() OpenSSL has made huge progress in recent years, in part through “Using a standard and well-understood license isĪ huge benefit when incorporating a FOSS project into other projects and Under the Apache License,” said Nicko van Someren, Chief Technology Officer, “The Linux Foundation is excited to see the OpenSSL project re-licensing OpenSSL team decided to relicense the code under the widely-used ASLv2. The Core Infrastructure Initiative and legal counsel from the SFLC, the Grown and changed since then, and has mostly settled on a small number ofĪfter careful review, consultation with other projects, and input from To the 1990’s and is more than 20 years old. With a total of more than 31,000 commits. Will aid the OpenSSL team’s efforts to contact everyone who hasĬontributed to the project so far, which includes nearly 400 individuals Point, and looks forward to its successful and timely completion.” Is pleased to have been able to help the team bring this process to this Their process will be an outstanding example of ‘how to do it right.’ SFLC “OpenSSL’s team has carefully prepared for this re-licensing, and The widest possible range of free and open source software,” said MishiĬhoudhary, Legal Director of Software Freedom Law Center (SFLC) and counsel Widely-used FOSS encryption software, more convenient to incorporate in “This re-licensing activity will make OpenSSL, already the world’s most Team launched a new website and has been working with various corporateĬollaborators to facilitate the re-licensing process. Most popular SSL/TLS and cryptographic toolkit, is changing its license SAN FRANCISCO, Ma– The OpenSSL project, home of the world’s 2.0 To Encourage Broader Use with Other FOSS Projects and Products OpenSSL Launches New Website to Organize Process, Seeks to Contact All Contributors OpenSSL Re-licensing to Apache License v. The official press release can be found at the CII website. General issues are grateful to all the contributors who have contributed to OpenSSLĪnd look forward to their help and support in this effort. Or want to raise other issues about the license change, please You can also post In the next few days we’ll start sending out email to all contributorsĪsking them to approve the change. The following is a press release that we just released, with the cooperationĪnd financial support of the Core Infrastructure Initiative and the
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