Cleaning up the team's packages?

[Alessio Treglia]

On Mon, Apr 28, 2014 at 4:05 PM, Jaromír Mikeš <mira.mikes at gmail.com> wrote:
> E: petri-foo: possible-gpl-code-linked-with-openssl
> N:
> N:    This package appears to be covered by the GNU GPL but depends on the
> N:    OpenSSL libssl package and does not mention a license exemption or
> N:    exception for OpenSSL in its copyright file. The GPL (including
> version
> N:    3) is incompatible with some terms of the OpenSSL license, and
> therefore
> N:    Debian does not allow GPL-licensed code linked with OpenSSL libraries
> N:    unless there is a license exception explicitly permitting this.
> N:
> N:    If only the Debian packaging, or some other part of the package not
> N:    linked with OpenSSL, is covered by the GNU GPL, please add a lintian
> N:    override for this tag. Lintian currently has no good way of
> N:    distinguishing between that case and problematic packages.
> N:
> N:    Severity: serious, Certainty: wild-guess
> N:
> N:    Check: copyright-file, Type: binary

The warning is self-explanatory. Remove the build-dep on libssl, then either:

1. Try to build it with libgnutls-dev instead
2. Ask upstream to avoid linking against it directly; he could use dlopen for it

Cheers!

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