On Sat, 04 Oct 2008 22:18:51 +0200 Vincent Bernat <ber...@debian.org> wrote:
OoO Pendant le journal télévisé du samedi 04 octobre 2008, vers 20:48,
Christian Engwer <chri...@uni-hd.de> disait :
> To make the situation even more confusing, Debian offers a lot of
> packages, which are linked against libssl and licensed under GPL (e.g.
> kcontrol, inkscape, balsa, ...).
All those packages need the OpenSSL exception. The other solution is to
link them against GNU TLS (which is possible because they are licensed
under GPL, as well as the OpenSSL compatibility wrapper).
We also have packages that linked against OpenSSL and against GPL
libraries without OpenSSL exception. This is not authorized. An example
is Python which is linked to libssl and to libreadline.
We have GPL packages that link against packages linked to OpenSSL. For
example, quagga was linked to libsnmp which is linked to libssl. quagga
has handled this issue by disabling SNMP support (which is a
pity). There are other packages in this case.
Those licensing issues are a mess. I think that the problem should be
raised after lenny. Right now, people are focused to lenny. I have tried
to raise the problem with Python without any success.
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I AM SO VERY TIRED
I AM SO VERY TIRED
I AM SO VERY TIRED
-+- Bart Simpson on chalkboard in episode AABF20
I think, this issue can be closed. See the last comments on #924937.
It took a little longer...
