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Comment by jeltz | Hacker News Reader

Sounds like they are doing excellent work here but it is a pity the license can never be GPL compatible.

    > but it is a pity the license can never be GPL compatible

Why? What are the practical downsides?

Yes, OpenSSL has an advertising clause that is incompatible with the GPL.

https://people.gnome.org/~markmc/openssl-and-the-gpl.html

Seriously, why did they pick the 4 clause BSD license and Apache 1.0 license? Is it just out of spite for the GPL?

This whole thing seems kind of childish. The website and slides are especially unprofessional - not just amateurish, I think it takes work to make the slides as bad as they are. What is the point?

They didn't pick the license. The new code is ISC licensed, but the bulk of the code is from OpenSSL, so the project as a whole is stuck with OpenSSL's license.

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