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Shane Wegner (shane@cm.nu)
Fri, 1 Jan 1999 16:42:11 -0800 (PST)
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Hi,
Interesting. I'm sort of confused though. They are worried that ssleay
might not be maintained anymore. Why don't they just write the author and
ask. it'd be a waist of time if this thing went forward and ssleay was
still being maintained. Does anyone know what the announcement from Ben
Laurie was which they referenced?
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On Fri, 1 Jan 1999, Harondel J. Sibble wrote:
> >From another list I am on....
>
> C2Net, producer of the popular Stronghold product, in conjunction
> with Ralf S. Engelschall, author of the popular mod_ssl and mod_rewrite
> modules for Apache, together announce the creation of the OpenSSL
> Project.
>
>
> The OpenSSL Project has been created in order to preserve the
> existence and continued support of a free SSL/TLS library for commercial
> and non-commercial use, in light of recent developments with the currently
> popular SSLeay package. Therefore, C2Net has been planning for some
> time
> the creation of a true Open Source project for the maintenance of a
> SSL/TLS toolkit, known as "OpenSSL".
> This project has been planned because there have been no recent
> updates to SSLeay, and we are concerned that SSLeay may no longer be
> maintained. Just as when NCSA HTTPD was no longer being maintained,
> the
> Apache Group took over maintanence of the server, we created the
> OpenSSL
> Group because we're concerned that it may no longer be currently
> maintained.
>
> While we had been hoping to delay our announcement until we had a
> release finished with some significant added functionality, Ben Laurie's
> recent announcement forced our hand. We don't want to see a division of
> effort in the community, so we felt it important that we make this
> announcement now. We plan to make a more formal announcement after
> the New
> Year.
>
> OpenSSL will be a SSLeay-derived product, released under an
> Apache-style license. We will append to the end of this message the text
> of the license we plan to use.
>
> We will be distributing the software and documentation from a
> website outside the United States at http://www.OpenSSL.org/.
>
> The initial release will be OpenSSL v0.9.1c, based on a
> C2Net-internal version of SSLeay developed with funding from C2Net. In
> short order we'll have a public CVS tree setup and will be contributing a
> number of other patches and modifications to the OpenSSL toolkit.
>
> Please contact us if you have SSLeay patches and improvements
> which you would like to contribute to the OpenSSL project.
>
> Feel free to contact me if you have any questions. I can be
> reached at sameer@c2.net, or by phone at +1 510 986 8770.
>
>
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