[Pkg-openssl-devel] Bug#501145: Please clearify license issue openssl vs. gpl

[Christian Engwer]

Package: openssl
Version: 0.9.8g-13
Severity: normal


In package mail-notification the README.Debian states conflicts in the
license of openssl and the gpl and thus the package disabled ssl
support.

At the same time the openssl packges has an entry in the FAQ about
exacting this issue. The text rather vague and doesn't really clearify
the issue, you would normally read the text such that it contradicts
the explanation in mail-notification.

To make the situation even more confusing, Debian offers a lot of
packages, which are linked against libssl and licensed under GPL (e.g.
kcontrol, inkscape, balsa, ...).

I would like to have this issue clearified and to have a consistent
interpretation for all debian packages.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (600, 'testing'), (500, 'testing-proposed-updates'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental'), (1, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.22-3-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages openssl depends on:
ii  libc6                  2.7-13            GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libssl0.9.8            0.9.8g-13         SSL shared libraries
ii  zlib1g                 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-12 compression library - runtime

openssl recommends no packages.

Versions of packages openssl suggests:
ii  ca-certificates               20080809   Common CA certificates

-- no debconf information