On Fri, 9 Nov 2007 19:16:49 +0000, Ian Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Marc Haber writes ("transitive GPL (exim4, OpenSSL, mySQL and others)"): >> (1) >> Is it ok to change exim's SSL library to OpenSSL in the current setup >> without violating the GPL for some of the library currently in use > >You mentioned libpq and mysql. What other libraries are involved ?
I am quite interested in the general case. >> (3) >> Is this violation maybe already happening by virtue of linking >> indirectly to OpenSSL via libpq? > >Does libpq pull in OpenSSL ? libpq-dev depends on libssl-dev, yes. >What is the licence of libpq ? | Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software and its | documentation for any purpose, without fee, and without a written agreement | is hereby granted, provided that the above copyright notice and this | paragraph and the following two paragraphs appear in all copies. (two "no warranty" disclaimers deleted, see /usr/share/doc/libpq-dev/copyright) >I think we could give you a better answer if you provided a full >run-down of the facts: a complete list of all of the libraries and >programs which are used when you compile exim in this way, how they >relate to each other, and what their licenses are. Is there a tool that follows the library link path and at least lists all libraries depended on, or do I need to spend days to collect this manually? Greetings Marc -- -------------------------------------- !! No courtesy copies, please !! ----- Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header Mannheim, Germany | Beginning of Wisdom " | http://www.zugschlus.de/ Nordisch by Nature | Lt. Worf, TNG "Rightful Heir" | Fon: *49 621 72739834