[Pkg-kde-extras] Bug#495269: GPL code linked against OpenSSL in KVirc

[Adam Williamson]

Package: kvirc
Version: 2:3.4.0-1+b1

As per
http://lintian.debian.org/tags/possible-gpl-code-linked-with-openssl.html , Debian considers it a conflict for GPL code to link against OpenSSL without an exception in the GPL app's license.

KVirc is a GPL app, and it is - according to
http://packages.debian.org/sid/kvirc - linked against openssl. It's
listed as requiring:

libssl0.9.8 (>= 0.9.8f-5) 

KVIrc's license has a special exception covering an issue with Qt/Win32,
but no exception for OpenSSL. I suspect the exception for Qt is
erroneously causing your lint thingy not to flag up the issue for KVirc.

I have mentioned this issue to the KVirc developers and this is their
position:

<Pragma> if you send to the mailing list a paragraph that should be
added to the license and people acknowledge that, I can add it
 feel no problems about it
 it's just that I don't really want to read about all this stuff :D
<Pragma> I'll gain interest in it only when someone really comes and
complains
<Pragma> loudly :D

I honestly don't really care a lot about this kind of massively
theoretical licensing issue, but I know the legal eagles of debian-legal
do, and I am taking advantage of this fact to dump all the effort
required to sort this out onto you, poor Debian maintainer. You will
then do all the work and I can swoop in and claim the benefit in a
couple of weeks, having spent the intervening period drinking beer and
eating ice cream. You poor schmuck.
-- 
adamw