Add OpenSSL clause to the LGPL license

[johanvdw]

Hello,

Currently FDO and Mapguide are released under the LGPL license. However this license is not completely compatible with OpenSSH which is part of FDO.

It would be better to include an OpenSSL exception to the license. Such an exception will be needed if FDO is ever to be part of Debian and derived distributions(it will always be rejected otherwise[1] ).

An example (based on a text from [2]):

• In addition, as a special exception, the copyright holders give
• permission to link the code of portions of this program with the
• OpenSSL, and distribute linked combinations including the two.
• You must obey the GNU Lesser General Public License in all respects
• for all of the code used other than OpenSSL. If you modify
• file(s) with this exception, you may extend this exception to your
• version of the file(s), but you are not obligated to do so. If you
• do not wish to do so, delete this exception statement from your
• version. If you delete this exception statement from all source
• files in the program, then also delete it here.

Regards, Johan

[1]​https://ftp-master.debian.org/REJECT-FAQ.html [2]​https://people.gnome.org/~markmc/openssl-and-the-gpl.html

[jng]

FDO trunk now includes an internal copy of OpenSSL 3.0.12, which is now licensed under Apache License 2.0

​https://www.openssl.org/source/apache-license-2.0.txt

Therefore, the premise of the original issue (when OpenSSL was under a different license) is no longer valid.