Bug#907691: petri-foo: License incompatibility: links with OpenSSL

Sebastian Andrzej Siewior sebastian at breakpoint.cc
Sat Feb 26 17:35:43 GMT 2022


On 2018-08-31 15:03:38 [+0300], Yavor Doganov wrote:
> Package: petri-foo
> Version: 0.1.87-4
> Severity: serious
> 
> This package is licensed under GPLv2 only but links with the OpenSSL
> library which makes it impossible for distribution as the licenses are
> incompatible.  See
> 
> https://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#OpenSSL
> https://people.gnome.org/~markmc/openssl-and-the-gpl.html
> 
> You either have to ask the copyright holders to release it under GPL +
> OpenSSL exception or modify it to link with another cryptographic
> library such as GnuTLS.

OpenSSL is considered as a system library so there should no license
restriction, see #924937.
OpenSSL 3 in experimantal is licensed under the Apache-2 license.

Sebastian



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