Control: reassign -1 ftp.debian.org Re: Ansgar Burchardt 2019-03-20 <751a89074fcaa393f2cc26ff676e9e3434ecd706.ca...@43-1.org> > the OpenSSL ./. GPL problem (if one sees it as a problem) is larger > than just libpq5: just looking at a small sample of the direct rdeps of > libssl1.1, one can find the following GPL-licensed programs linking it: > > cryptsetup, wesnoth, mydumper, mupdf, gatling, kopete > > Also amanda-client, validns as they contain patches in d/patches > licensed under the GPL. > > There are probably lots more, especially when you start looking at > libraries (and their whole dependency trees). > > There is also cups which was reported to switch to Apache-2 which is > also GPL-2-incompatible... That has lots of rdeps too (including for > example all GTK applications). > > Fedora treats OpenSSL as a "system library"[1]. I would guess they > might do the same for libcups too. > > Ansgar > > [1] > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing:FAQ#What.27s_the_deal_with_the_OpenSSL_license.3F
Reassigning to ftp-master to get an answer on if this is a problem for Debian, or if we can invoke the system library exception, or other resolutions. Christoph
