On 5/19/05, Adam McKenna <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, May 19, 2005 at 07:38:18PM -0400, Raul Miller wrote: > > Which can occur if anyone redistributes any of the I_WANT_OPENSSL > > debian packages. > > According to you. If, for the sake of argument, we assume that such > binaries are undistributable, Debian is still not affected, since we > aren't contributing to their distribution, only their creation.
In some senses you're right. The README.Debian clearly documents how to use this in conjunction with apt-get -b source -- and this probably does count as contributing towards their creation. But is the distinction between contributing to their creation and contributing towards their distribution a strong distinction? After all, we've provided a number of other rather strong contributions towards distribution in general -- it might be hard to argue that those contributions are irrelevant here. On the other hand, if the copyright holder supplied the I_WANT_OPENSSL option, then that copyright holder probably can't hold us in violation of the license. Only if code has been incorporated from other projects would this seem to be a serious problem. Basically, I think that the violation has to be downstream from someone who has significant copyright for it to be a serious issue. Thanks, -- Raul