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

[Vincent Bernat]

OoO Pendant le  journal télévisé du samedi 04  octobre 2008, vers 20:48,
Christian Engwer <christi at uni-hd.de> disait :

> 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, ...).

All those packages need the  OpenSSL exception. The other solution is to
link them against  GNU TLS (which is possible  because they are licensed
under GPL, as well as the OpenSSL compatibility wrapper).

We  also have  packages  that  linked against  OpenSSL  and against  GPL
libraries without OpenSSL exception.  This is not authorized. An example
is Python which is linked to libssl and to libreadline.

We have GPL  packages that link against packages  linked to OpenSSL. For
example, quagga was linked to  libsnmp which is linked to libssl. quagga
has  handled  this   issue  by  disabling  SNMP  support   (which  is  a
pity). There are other packages in this case.

Those licensing  issues are a mess.  I think that the  problem should be
raised after lenny. Right now, people are focused to lenny. I have tried
to raise the problem with Python without any success.
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