Bug#1023923: veyon-plugins: license conflict with libsasl2

[Mike Gabriel]

On  Sa 12 Nov 2022 14:27:53 CET, Bastian Germann wrote:

> Package: veyon-plugins
> Version: 4.7.4+repack1-1
> Severity: serious
>
> Hi,
>
> libkldap-light.so depends on libsasl2-2, which is licensed under  
> CMU's BSD-4-clause license and covered by the RSA-MD and OpenSSL  
> licenses. All of them have an advertisement clause in place, which  
> is known to be incompatible with the GPL. There are several possible  
> solutions to this problem:
>
> 1) Build without the plugin.

Not optimal as a solution.

> 2) Support my request at #996892.

Will do.

> 3) Ask upstream to change this plugin's license or add a license  
> exception for libsasl2-2, similar to the one that was required by  
> Debian for OpenSSL for a long time.

I will contact upstream on this, as well. Opening up another pathway  
to fixing this.

Mike
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