[debian-mysql] Bug#761913: percona-xtradb-cluster-server-5.5: Percona XtraDB Cluster lacks documentation of OpenSSL exception to GPL

[Andrei POPESCU]

Control: reassign -1 percona-xtradb-cluster-server-5.5

On Ma, 16 sep 14, 11:48:15, Clint Byrum wrote:
> Source: percona-xtradb-cluster-server-5.5
> Version: Percona XtraDB Cluster lacks documentation of OpenSSL exception to GPL
> Severity: normal
> 
> OpenSSL cannot be linked to from GPL code without the authors providing
> an exception to clause 6 of the GPL, since the OpenSSL license imposes
> restrictions incompatible with the GPL. This is why MySQL does not link
> against OpenSSL.
> 
> CYaSSL was recently accepted into Debian unstable, and is available for
> use as a standard shared library. Percona XtraDB Cluster should build
> and link against that, as it is GPL compatible, or the license exception
> should be documented in debian/copyright.
> 
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: jessie/sid
>   APT prefers trusty-updates
>   APT policy: (500, 'trusty-updates'), (500, 'trusty-security'), (500, 'trusty'), (100, 'trusty-backports')
> Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
> Foreign Architectures: i386
> 
> Kernel: Linux 3.13.0-35-generic (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
> Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

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