On Mar 29, 2005, at 1:41 PM, Freek Dijkstra wrote:
Lars Rosengreen wrote:
To me the solution seems fairly simple: if a package has gpl (or lgpl) in its license field and has a builddep on fink's openssl, then it should no longer be included in the binary distribution, unless someone can establish that the upstream authors permit linking against openssl.
Only for GPL. There is absolutely no problem to distribute a LGPL-licensed package which is linked to OpenSSL.
I'm not sure that I agree. Section 3 of the LGPL allows you to convert a LGPL'd work to the full GPL. If you link against openssl, this is no longer possible because the aggregate is not compatible with the GPL due to the openssl advertising clause. Section 10 says "you may not impose any further restrictions on the recipients' exercise of the rights granted herein."
The LGPL is more like the X11-licende (aka modified BSD-license), which
is also non-restrictive. <rant>If you read the FSF website, you will see a lot of push towards the GPL rather then the LGPL. That's pure politics. The GPL is actually very restrictive, and the FSF want it to be that way: they like that everything to use the GPL, in order to push free software, which can never be used in a commercial product. That other free licenses suffer from that is collateral damage to the FSF.</rant>
I personally think the MIT/BSD/X11 licenses are a lot more permissive in what they allow than the LGPL is. When I first started writing open source software in the early 1980's, we all released our code into the public domain and didn't worry about all this license stuff. Sometimes I miss those days ;)
-Lars
Regards, Freek
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