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Summary: Review Request: ssmtp https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=188400 ------- Additional Comments From [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2006-10-30 10:56 EST ------- (In reply to comment #31) > Patch number 8 switches from using openssl to gnutls, the reason behind the > change being pointed in > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=374327. > Quoting from there: > "as written in debian/copyright ssmtp is now GPL. Your package is linked > against OpenSSL, which is not licensed under the GPL, this is a license > violation. I'm a bit surprised that debian folks say such strange things. The GPL cause any derivated work to be licenced under the GPL, but linking dynamically against a library doesn't make that library a derivative work. If this was true, GPL programs couldn't be linked against proprietary libc on unix or windows. In fact the opposite could be argued, linking against a library forces to comply with the library licence, that's what leads to the LGPL for libraries versus GPL, whenever one want to allow the library to be linked against GPL incompatible code. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are the QA contact for the bug, or are watching the QA contact. _______________________________________________ Fedora-package-review mailing list Fedora-package-review@redhat.com http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-package-review
