Hi, I have a package Alexandria, written in Ruby, which will depend on a new library in the next version. This library, ruby-zoom, is an LGPL Ruby binding of libyaz. libyaz links to OpenSSL and is, as far as I can tell, under a 2-clause BSD licence. Everything fine so far.
But it seems to me that it will be impossible for Alexandria, which is under the GPL, to use ruby-zoom legally as, by doing so, it will be linking against OpenSSL, which is under a GPL-incompatible licence. Am I right in thinking so? My understanding of this issue is based on reading this thread: http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2002/10/msg00113.html If there is indeed a licence problem here, I can see two main solutions: - Try to get libyaz in Debian to link against GnuTLS instead of OpenSSL. - Get the maintainer of Alexandria to make an exception for linking against OpenSSL. I notice that the Tellico package, which is GPL, already links against libyaz. Is this a licence violation? -- Dafydd -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]