[Pkg-openldap-devel] Bug#428385: Bug#428385: GPLv3 and OpenSSL

[James Andrewartha]

On Mon, 13 Aug 2007, Russ Allbery wrote:

> James Andrewartha <trs80 at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au> writes:
>
>> Now that GPLv3 is out, everything that's GPLv2 or later (which is most
>> packages, except nuauth, zabbix-agent and maybe others) can be
>> distributed as GPLv3 and linked against OpenSSL, due to the following
>> text of GPLv3:
>
> I think there are packages in Debian that are GPLv2 only, unless we want
> to try to track all of those down and somehow confirm that they're not
> using OpenLDAP.

Yeah, I did a apt-cache rdepends libldap2 and had a look through some 
copyright files. Unfortunately the copyright files often say "GPLv2" when 
the actual source says "GPLv2 or later", or in the case of pdns, just "GNU 
General Public License" although it comes with GPLv2 in COPYING. OTOH 
there's quite a few apps that have the OpenSSL exception, but those are 
generally v2 or later anyway.



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