[Python-modules-team] Bug#551958: python-openssl should document permission for name from OpenSSL project

[Daniel Kahn Gillmor]

Package: pyopenssl

The OpenSSL license says:

 * 5. Products derived from this software may not be called "OpenSSL"
 *    nor may "OpenSSL" appear in their names without prior written
 *    permission of the OpenSSL Project.

pyopenssl (and derived binary packages) seem to fall under the scope of
this clause, but they don't document any explicit permission from the
OpenSSL project for use of the name.

I've filed this as a bug with upstream:

  https://bugs.launchpad.net/pyopenssl/+bug/457795

But since debian tends to take license compliance more seriously than
some projects, you may want to take some debian-specific measures to
ensure that we're distributing something legitimately licensed.

Thanks for maintaining this package in debian!  Sorry for raising
annoying licensing issues.   If the grant to use the name is already
documented someplace, i couldn't find it :(

	--dkg

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