Re: A non-vanilla GPLv3+ license question

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On Sat, Jun 13, 2020 at 12:52 PM Qiyu Yan <yanqiyu01@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> In this
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1846175
> review request, the upstream license is
> https://github.com/trojan-gfw/trojan/blob/master/LICENSE
>
> That is a GPLv3 with the exception:
>
> In addition, as a special exception, the copyright holders give
> permission to link the code of portions of this program with the
> OpenSSL library under certain conditions as described in each
> individual source file, and distribute linked combinations
> including the two.
>
> It looks like a GNU General Public License v3.0 only, with Classpath exception, but I can't tell.
>
> Anyone can help me? Thanks in advance!

This appears to be identical to the OpenSSL linking exception appended
to the GPLv2 license file in cryptsetup
(https://gitlab.com/cryptsetup/cryptsetup/-/blob/master/COPYING). It's
one of a number of OpenSSL linking exceptions that have been in use by
GPL projects.

Richard
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