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

[Clint Byrum]

Excerpts from Otto Kekäläinen's message of 2014-10-08 02:29:50 -0700:
> I've read up on pages like
> https://people.gnome.org/~markmc/openssl-and-the-gpl.html and
> https://www.openssl.org/support/faq.html#LEGAL2. Getting a permission
> statement for a GPL-OpenSSL exception (which basically is only needed
> for Debian as others don't interpret GPL in such a strict way) from
> all of MariaDB/MySQL copyright holders is an impossible task for a
> packager like me.
> 
> For 10.0 I've now switched using the bundled YaSSL in commit
> http://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pkg-mysql/mariadb-10.0.git/commit/?id=477bad781a9338ff6542d71c78432b387dedb05f
> and so far builds and tests suites have passed OK. If Debian starts to
> ship YaSSL as a package we could start to rely on a distro provided
> build dependency, or if CYaSSL develops to be on par with YaSSL in
> terms of OpenSSL API compatibility and upstream MariaDB would adopt
> their fork to it, we in Debian could also switch to CYaSSL and benefit
> of using a distro packaged build dependency. Until then, the bundled
> YaSSL is our solution. The same applies also for the Debian MySQL
> packages.

Thanks Otto. It is my understanding that the CYaSSL developers are
working on making it work to build MySQL against CYaSSL, and that should
be sufficient to make MariaDB work as well.