Re: [exim] licensing and SPDX

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Author: Andreas Metzler
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To: exim-users
Subject: Re: [exim] licensing and SPDX
On 2022-10-30 Jeremy Harris via Exim-users <exim-users@???> wrote:
> Does anyone have opinions on the licensing of Exim?


> The project front-page ( https://exim.org/index.html )
> says "under the terms of the GNU General Public Licence",
> and links to the GPL page (which primarily promotes GPLv3,
> though older versions are present deeper in that site).


> The earliest version of that text I can locate is from May 2000
> ( exim-website git; 4bec300304 ), which predates GPLv3 (2007).
> GPLv2 was 1991.


> The file "LICENCE" in the exim git "/src" directory, which ends
> up in the top directory of the extracted tarball of a distribution,
> is GPLv2.

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Hello,

Just a quick f'up, will try to answer in more detail on another day.
I have always relied on NOTICE which says GPLv2+ with OpenSSL linking
exception.

cu Andreas
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