[debian-mysql] Bug#761911: Bug#761911: mariadb-server-core-5.5: MariaDB lacks documentation of OpenSSL exception to GPL

[Otto Kekäläinen]

2014-09-18 1:11 GMT+03:00 Clint Byrum <spamaps at debian.org>:
> The above mentioned stuff was about the client libraries, and not about
> the server daemon.

OK.

>> Should I add to line 134 the parapraph below?
>> **
>>  On Debian based systems the full text of the GNU General Public License version
>>  2 can be found in the file `/usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-2`.
>>  .
>>  In addition, as a special exception, the copyright holders give
>>  permission to link the code of portions of this program with the
>>  OpenSSL project's "OpenSSL" library (or with modified versions of it
>>  that use the same license as the "OpenSSL" library), and distribute
>>  the linked executables.  You must obey the GNU General Public License
>>  in all respects for all of the code used other than "OpenSSL".  If you
>>  modify this file, you may extend this exception to your version of the
>>  file, but you are not obligated to do so.  If you do not wish to do
>>  so, delete this exception statement from your version.
>> **
>
> Where did this text come from?

I looked what another package uses. My goal here was to visualize what
the end result in d/copyright needs to look like. If we need to ask
permisison/clarification somewhere we should have an concrete
suggestion of what we want as the end result.


>> About cyassl: I am working on it to find out the correct "-DWITH_SSL=" syntax.
>
>
> It's entirely possible that it won't work, as YaSSL and CYaSSL are
> slightly different, but both implement an OpenSSL compatible API.

It seems that CYaSSL, at least in current version, isn't complete
enough for MariaDB: https://mariadb.atlassian.net/browse/MDEV-6823

> We can table that if we have actual copyright holder permission to link
> OpenSSL to MariaDB's server process, which I wasn't aware we had.

No we don't have. I am right now not even sure who we should ask,
MariaDB or is this maybe inherited from Oracle. I will try to find out
more.