On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 06:07:50PM +0000, Dominic Hargreaves wrote: > In http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=425202#10 > Aurélien said: > > "Still the same old reason which hinders quite many other packages in > Debian: to wit, the incompatibiliy between the GPLv2 and the OpenSSL > license. The GPLv2 which ircd-hybrid is licensed under cannot be > altered to be compatible with the OpenSSL license, because too many > parties are involved. > > Nevertheless, it seems the current GPLv3 will solve the licensing > conflict and, fortunately, ircd-hybrid is licensed under the GPLv2 > *or later*. Therefore, when the GPLv3 will be officially released, > it will be possible to distribute an OpenSSL-enabled ircd-hybrid." > > GPLv3 has now been released, so perhaps this can in fact be resolved.
A discussion on the upstream mailing list (no public archives at the moment) in 2006 resulted in the following key points: * Adding a licence exception is not practical because of the number of copyright holders * Back in 2006, it was not clear that adding support for GnuTLS was practical * yaSSL is another option which has an OpenSSL compatiblity layer * The SSL layer could become a separate helper, removing the need to link ircd with OpenSSL I think the comment about GPL3 fixing this is wrong; GPL3 provides a more formal hook to add exceptions, but the exception would still need to be ratified by the copyright holders, so I don't think it helps. -- Dominic Hargreaves | http://www.larted.org.uk/~dom/ PGP key 5178E2A5 from the.earth.li (keyserver,web,email) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
