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David R. Morrison wrote: | Lars, | | Thanks for raising this issue. It has come up before, but it has perhaps | not received the attention it deserves. | | My reading of the links you provided suggests that you are correct: we may | not link GPL'd software against fink's openssl package unless the license | explictly permits linking to openssl. (In many cases, there is an | alternative -- link to the system's openssl -- although this is not great | because it doesn't get updated as frequently.) | | Do we do this in stable/crypto at all? Did you happen to jot down the | names of the offending packages in unstable/crypto? | Personally i am _very_ unhappy with this nervousness about Licensing. the GPL is not meant to inhibit what we are doing, nor is it meant to make our work more complicated. This is one of the cases where I assume that it would be correct to simply do as we wish, looking forward to whatever may come. I will run this by our lawyers tomorrow, I think the risk is marginal compared to tha mount of work we shall have to complete to fully comply with this.
My 2 cents.
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