Michael Petch <[email protected]> writes: > On 2015-01-13 7:51 PM, Russ Allbery wrote:
>> That's Debian's position as well, so we always link GPL-covered >> packages against the GnuTLS build of libcurl in the Debian archives. > I discovered that Debian has a notice about the licensing issues > regarding OpenSSL: > https://lintian.debian.org/tags/possible-gpl-code-linked-with-openssl.html > I'd be curious if the checks pick up on GPL code that relies on a > library that in turns relies on OpenSSL. No, sadly. :/ We usually find that stuff manually. > I happened to ask this question on a private FSF mailing list and the > consensus is that linking directly or indirectly to OpenSSL would be a > licensing issue if you are distributing binaries. That appears to be in > line with Debian's view as well. Yeah, Debian and the FSF use basically the same analysis here. Other organizations have reached different conclusions. It's a murky area of law that's never been tested in court so far as I know. -- Russ Allbery ([email protected]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> _______________________________________________ Bug-gnubg mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-gnubg
