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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