On Feb 26, Michael Biebl <bi...@debian.org> wrote:

> Doesn't really help to add such a license exception as you also need to
> consider users of libkmod and check the rdep tree recursively.
> 
> Imho the only sane way to deal with this is to treat OpenSSL as a system
> library and apparently other distros with actual legal counsel handle it
> that way.
Which Red Hat did, and nobody ever complained about in an actual court.
This is relevant, because Red Hat is a target for litigation and Debian 
is not.

Or at least to decide that the criteria is "being a derivative work" and 
not "being listed as DT_NEEDED", which would solve a lot of cases.

-- 
ciao,
Marco

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