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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Le 23/06/2020 à 13:33, Yves-Alexis
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<pre wrap="">I'm surprised you never heard of the OpenSSL licensing issues with the GPL.
See for example <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://people.gnome.org/~markmc/openssl-and-the-gpl.html" moz-do-not-send="true">https://people.gnome.org/~markmc/openssl-and-the-gpl.html</a> and
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2004/05/msg00595.html" moz-do-not-send="true">https://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2004/05/msg00595.html</a>
Basically, unless the author of the GPL-ed software grants a special
exception, you can't link it against OpenSSL. Most of libimobiledevice
libraries are under LGPL but the tools usually are under GPL (without
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<p>Thanks, I know about the openssl/gpl issues but it has been a
while I didn't have to deal with that and forgot the details so
the reminder is useful. <br>
I wonder if Fedora judged it was ok to do for libimobiledevice
(and if soon what basis?) or if they just did without thinking
about the license aspect.</p>
<p>You are probably right then that it makes sense to stay on the
gnutls backend for Debian<br>
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<p>Cheers,<br>
Sebastien Bacher<br>
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