Bug#606520: linux-tools-2.6.36: /usr/bin/perf_2.6.36 links against openssl but copyright lists only GPLv2 without exceptions
Package: linux-tools-2.6.36
Version: 2.6.36-1~experimental.1
Severity: serious
/usr/share/doc/linux-tools-2.6.36/copyright gives me the impression
that we have a license to distribute /usr/bin/perf_2.6.36 only under
the terms of the GPLv2. Is this correct?
It seems that perf_2.6.36 uses openssl:
$ ldd /usr/bin/perf_2.6.36|grep ssl
libssl.so.0.9.8 => /usr/lib/libssl.so.0.9.8 (0x00007f20fad1f000)
Has perf upstream given an exception to GPLv2 to allow us to do this
or is this indeed a real problem?
-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=fi_FI (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages linux-tools-2.6.36 depends on:
ii binutils 2.20.1-15 The GNU assembler, linker and bina
ii libc6 2.11.2-7 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii libelf1 0.148-1 library to read and write ELF file
ii libperl5.10 5.10.1-16 shared Perl library
ii libpython2.6 2.6.6-6 Shared Python runtime library (ver
ii perl 5.10.1-16 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction
ii python 2.6.6-3+squeeze1 interactive high-level object-orie
ii python-support 1.0.10 automated rebuilding support for P
Versions of packages linux-tools-2.6.36 recommends:
ii linux-base 2.6.36-1~experimental.1 Linux image base package
Versions of packages linux-tools-2.6.36 suggests:
pn linux-doc-2.6.36 <none> (no description available)
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