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

[Yves-Alexis Perez]

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On Tue, 2020-06-23 at 16:34 +0200, Sebastien Bacher wrote:
> Hey again Yves-Alexis,
> 
> (replying just to you there because I don't know if that's out of topic for
> the list)

Definitely on-topic since we're discussing the matter in context of the
libimobiledevice stack.
> 
> Le 23/06/2020 à 13:33, Yves-Alexis Perez a écrit :
> > 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.
> 
> I've been pointed out to that debian-ftp meeting
> http://meetbot.debian.net/debian-ftp/2020/debian-ftp.2020-03-13-20.02.html
> 
> 'OpenSSL license (waldi, 20:25:22)
> 
>     AGREED: do what Fedora does with OpenSSL (waldi, 20:26:56)
>     AGREED: consider OpenSSL, cups and libgcc as system libraries (re GPL-2) 
> (waldi, 20:41:21)'
> 
> seems that Debian's position changed on the topic?

Thanks for the pointer, that's definitely interesting. I'll poke waldi on irc
to check if we can somehow have a more official stand (like a d-d-a mail or
something).

Regards,
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Yves-Alexis
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