[debian-mysql] Bug#921488: Bug#921488: libmariadb3: OpenSSL license contamination of GPL reverse-dependencies

[Steve Langasek]

On Wed, Feb 06, 2019 at 07:21:46AM +0200, Otto Kekäläinen wrote:
> The OpenSSL licence will change from 3.0.0 onwards
> (https://www.openssl.org/source/license.html) but you are right that
> for version 1.1.1 the SSLeay clause applies. MySQL and MariaDB has the
> OpenSSL exception, and YaSSL has been used due to earlier
> interpretation by non-maintainers that it might be needed, but
> currently I think using OpenSSL is the right thing to use, just like
> upstream MariaDB uses as well.

How does your statement that you think it is "the right thing to use" help
the maintainers of the various packages in the archive that are not
violating the GPL?  What action do you expect them to take for the buster
release?

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