[Python-modules-team] Bug#515200: pycurl and openssl

[Sandro Tosi]

Hi Guido,
thanks for follow this up!

On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 15:34, Guido Trotter <ultrotter at debian.org> wrote:
>
> Hi Sandro,
>
> We stomped into #515200 the other day, while looking for ways to use pycurl to
> replace some functionality in our code. I'm willing to followup with Debian
> Legal, but looking at the license of pycurl (which is LGPL or MIT/X) there
> should definitely be no problem in compiling it with OpenSSL.

Great! I saw the thread is having some replies, still I didn't read
them carefully (but they seem encouraging).

> What is forbidden
> is linking pure GPL programs with OpenSSL, but this wouldn't happen here, as
> pycurl is not under the GPL. What would be less clear is the status of pure GPL
> software using pycurl+openssl (rather than pycurl+gnutls), and distributed by
> Debian. But various packages can continue to depend on the gnutls version to
> stay compatible, and also I'm not even sure using a python library would
> qualify as "linking".

yeah, that's also a point debian-legal would clarify, i think

> Anyway, would you agree that if debian-legal is not
> against, we can proceed providing an alternative version? The license seems to
> be completely allowing this.

Yep, the blocker I saw was legal not technical (even if I'll have to
find a way to compile one version with gnutls and another with
openssl), so once d-legal will give a "go" we can processed (oh,
patches are welcome :P ).

Regards,
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