Bug#446036: exim4: please compile against openssl instead of gnutls

[Stephen Gran]

This one time, at band camp, Marc Haber said:
> On Wed, Oct 10, 2007 at 01:12:51AM +0100, Stephen Gran wrote:
> > It's not as if
> > there's a licensing issue - there is an explicit excemption for openssl.
> 
> So you want to have the mysql binding removed from exim4-daemon-heavy?
> Or exim4-daemon-heavy against gnutls and -light against openssl?

OK, just to be clear here, what I understand you to be arguing is that
the shared library loading will create an executable space that contains
both mysql (GPL + no excemption) and openssl, and that this will create
a GPL violation.  Am I correct?

First, there is one problem with this argument - you already link to
libpq5, which depends on openssl, and so you already have the thing
you're trying to avoid.

Second, the exim code for mysql lookups does not simultaneously use
openssl functions - they are logically seperate pieces of code.  This
means that this is not an attempt to work around the GPL by making an
application whose primary purpose is to act as a shim layer between
openssl and mysql.

As I read it, there would be no GPL violation in the linking I am
proposing.  Even more to the point, the linkage you are saying is a GPL
violation is _already_ happening.
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