Hi all

This is a mail I received from a fellow curler who wants to keep his name
hidden. I do feel this is an urgent subject and I too would appriciate
comments and help in this subject. I'm sure he is not alone, and it is
likewise likely that others might follow this path in the future...

---------- Forwarded message ----------
Hi Daniel,

As you're probably aware, I've been working on a project which was
to integrate libcurl. This is a project for my employer, and will
not be an Open Source project, though we do intend to donate any
changes made to libcurl back to the project, of course. And I've
already sent you some (admitedly minor) diffs.

Anyhow, our company is (unfortunately) a lot newer with Open Source
than I am and now we're having problems getting legal to give the
thumbs up to using libcurl. In fact, they vehemently want us to
rip it out.

They're worried that code contained within libcurl might either
violate someone else's patent or copyright, and that there
is a risk that we might thus get sued as a result of using this
library. Unfortunately, I really don't know what to say to this.

Do you have any ideas on how to counter such an argument? Are there
other commercial products that use cURL?

Feel free to forward to the list for ideas, but if you do so,
I'd ask that you even remove my alias from the message.

Any help/info *greatly* appreciated,
Received on 2000-05-02