On Sat, Apr 4, 2009 at 17:43, Cristian Greco <cristian.deb...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sat, Apr 04, 2009 at 12:00:56PM +0800, LI Daobing wrote: > >> On Sat, Apr 4, 2009 at 05:06, Cristian Greco <cristian.deb...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> > [ CCing debian-legal for comments ] >> > >> > On Fri, Apr 03, 2009 at 10:37:49PM +0300, Adrian Bunk wrote: >> >> The libcurl case might be easy to resolve, but I don't know anything >> >> about the libtorrent-rasterbar. >> >> >> >> It might be required that you get all copyright holders to agree on a >> >> licence exception. >> > >> > The point is that qbittorrent doesn't directly link against libssl and the >> > source code doesn't really use that library. Is it really necessary to add >> > the >> > exception? >> > >> > I'm not sure if the executable linking is caused by libtorrent-rasterbar >> > (BSD >> > code linked against libssl) or some other required libraries/headers. In >> > the >> > former case, if linking is caused by the torrent library, all of its >> > clients >> > should add such exception. >> > >> > My thought is that qbittorrent shouldn't be affected by this problem >> > because it >> > doesn't really link against libssl. And BTW, the source code includes >> > licenses >> > such as LGPL, BSD and MIT, so it shouldn't need the exception anyway. >> > >> I think it need an exception. >> >> GPL licensed code and OpenSSL licensed code should not run in the same >> process. > > I can confirm that linking against libssl is caused by libtorrent-rasterbar, > which is compiled with encryption support and causes inclusion of some OpenSSL > headers. > > I'm wondering: > > 1) What to do in this case? Should all clients based on libtorrent-rasterbar > and licensed under the GPL add an exception even if they don't directly use > the > OpenSSL library? > libtorrent-rasterbar should provide two packages, one is libtorrent-rasterbar-openssl (with openssl enabled), another is libtorrent-rasterbar (with openssl disabled), just like libcurl3 and libcurl3-gnutls.
> 2) Why doesn't lintian complain about the exception if the source code > contains > GPL + another different license (this is the case with qbittorrent)? > I don't know. -- Best Regards LI Daobing -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-legal-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
