[Pkg-gtkpod-devel] New packages uploads to experimental

[Yves-Alexis Perez]

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On Tue, 2020-06-23 at 13:03 +0200, Sebastien Bacher wrote:
> I was checking on other distributions and noticed that fedora switched to
> build with openssl 'as the gnutls backend keeps breaking' so I was wondering
> if we should do the same in Debian (and also Ubuntu)

Yeah, upstream is more focused on OpenSSL than GnuTLS (recently had a reminder
at 
https://github.com/libimobiledevice/usbmuxd/issues/142#issuecomment-646301261)
.
> 
> What's the licensing issue exactly with using openssl there, the library has
> a limited set of rdepends, do we expect switching would be an issue for any
> of those?

I'm surprised you never heard of the OpenSSL licensing issues with the GPL.

See for example https://people.gnome.org/~markmc/openssl-and-the-gpl.html and 
https://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2004/05/msg00595.html

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
exception). And I guess that a lot of stuff linking against libimobiledevices
libraries are under GPL as well, so they would need an explicit exception as
well.

Regards, 
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Yves-Alexis
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