Re: Cryptographic software in main archive
(Public followup since this'll probably come up again. Discussion should
probably go to debian-legal@lists.debian.org)
On Sat, Mar 23, 2002 at 09:20:03PM +0100, Marek Michalkiewicz wrote:
> > * There are a whole bunch of GPLed programs that link against
> > libssl. This isn't okay, see the OpenSSL FAQ's response:
> > http://www.openssl.org/support/faq.html#LEGAL2
> > We've been lax about this in the past, we'll try to get this
> > right as packages are uploaded to main.
> 2. Can I use OpenSSL with GPL software?
> On many systems including the major Linux and BSD distributions, yes
> (the GPL does not place restrictions on using libraries that are part
> of the normal operating system distribution).
Sorry, this isn't precisely accurate on the OpenBSD folks part. The GPL
allows you to use this exception "unless [the library] accompanies the
executable" which it would if the executable were allowed into main. It's
the exact same situation we had with KDE/Qt.
Cheers,
aj
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