OpenSSL: License Agreements and Changes Are Coming

At the OpenSSL blog, Rich Salz has announcedthe project's decision to migrate away from the "rather uniqueand idiosyncratic" OpenSSL license to the Apache 2.0 license.In order to make the change in an upcoming release, though, theproject "will soon require almost every contributor to have asigned a Contributor License Agreement (CLA) on file."Individual and corporate versions of the CLA are posted; trivialpatches will evidently not trigger the need for the submitter to signand file an agreement. Salz closes by noting that more details arestill to come, since "there is a lot of grunt work needed to clean up the backlog and untangle all the years of work from the time when nobody paid much attention to this sort of detail."