On Fri, 24 Oct 2014 06:56:39 +0800 Paul Wise wrote:
[...]
> Bradley Kuhn says that for GPLv2-only works Debian should not consider
> OpenSSL to be a system library but for works where the GPLv3 can
> apply, SSL/TLS is likely a "Standard Interface" and thus subject to
> the "System Library" excepti
On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 4:11 PM, Florian Weimer wrote:
> But Fedora, whose policies Richard Fontana helped to shape over the
> years, considers OpenSSL to be a library covered by the system library
> exception.
We discussed this on #faif[1] and:
Richard Fontana says the OpenSSL-system library ex
On 23 Oct 2014 02:03, "Thorsten Glaser" wrote:
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>
> > Where it is clear it is indeed a concern. Note that Fontana is both a
> > lawyer, and co-author of the GPLv3.
>
> And a RedHat employee.
Was :) http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Fontana
> But Fedora, whose policies Richard Fontana helped to shape over the
> years, considers OpenSSL to be a library covered by the system library
> exception.
Afaict, Fedora does not consider every package that they offer to be
part of the operating system, whereas Debian does.
> In practice, the FS
* Henrique de Moraes Holschuh:
> The problem is that Debian is the operating system distributing the system
> libraries, and that all packages Debian distributes are *also* part of that
> same operating system.
>
> https://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2002/10/msg00113.html
> https://people.gnome.
On Wed, 22 Oct 2014, Thorsten Glaser wrote:
> Jelmer Vernooij dixit:
> >Samba is unlikely to add such an exception.
>
> So just make OpenSSL a system library finally.
It has always been a system library in Debian.
The problem is that Debian is the operating system distributing the system
librari
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