The current solution of using License:Restrictive for any packages that link to fink's openssl packages solves the legal issue. Not gonna discuss whether we should care, etc. Instead, I want to raise an unintended consequence of it: source tarballs for packages that are GPL except for this aspect are now not available from finkmirrors. That's *certainly* not within the restrictions of the openssl licensing! And it's a problem for users for all the same reasons the whole finkmirrors project addresses.
One route would be to add a special "openssl" flag to the License. Instead of a GPL-but-links-fink's-openssl being: License: Restrictive DescPackaging: Package is GPL but marked Restrictive due to openssl links It could be something like one of these: License: GPL/openssl License: GPL +openssl where this attribute is independent of the "normal" license value. That way the source-mirroring scripts can ignore that flag but the binary archive can treat it appropriately. Which means in the future we could change our policy easily (just line in a script or two). And the license really does better-describe the exact situation and differentiates what the upstream delcares from what our policy is. OTOH, we could generalize the solution away from "fink's openssl linkage policy" and just add a new Restrictive/Source-Distributable license type. I have no doubt that some of the other Restrictive packages may allow souce redistribution but (for example) not binary redistribution, or some other wacky licensing terms that would fit here also. dan -- Daniel Macks [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.netspace.org/~dmacks ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: NEC IT Guy Games. How far can you shotput a projector? How fast can you ride your desk chair down the office luge track? If you want to score the big prize, get to know the little guy. Play to win an NEC 61" plasma display: http://www.necitguy.com/?r=20 _______________________________________________ Fink-devel mailing list Fink-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-devel
