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

[James Andrewartha]

On Tue, 14 Aug 2007, Steve Langasek wrote:

> FWIW, it seems to be the FSF's position that the rewritten "system
> libraries" exception in GPLv3 does *not* apply to libraries such as OpenSSL,
> only to libraries that constitute "language runtimes".  I don't think this
> follows directly from the license as written, but it seems once again to at
> least be a /tenable/ position for the FSF to hold, so we're no better off
> vis à vis OpenSSL under GPLv3 than we were under GPLv2.
>
> Discussion of this can be found in the debian-legal list archives for July.

Ah, http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2007/07/msg00237.html and 
following. It does mean that GPLv3 users of PAM are ok, since PAM is 
definitely a system library. So even if OpenSSL were a system library, 
we'd need to check the dependencies of libpam0g for GPLv2 only as well.

Shane, Anthony - Did you get a response from Brett Smith regarding 
Anthony's most recent post to debian-legal? I can't see anything since 
then on debian-legal.

Thanks,

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