Hello debian-legal, It was recently brought to my attention that my package, ircd-hybrid, currently in the archive under main/net, needs to be corrected one way or another due to its use of OpenSSL for encrypted server-to-server connections. The source itself is licensed under pure GPLv2. Marco D'Itri told me that I should be able to do one of the following: 1) Talk with upstream (which I am a part of) and get the consensus to amend the license of present and future releases like so: "This program is licensed under the GNU General Public License, with the exception that linking against the OpenSSL libraries is allowed." 2) Rewrite the crypto backend to use GNU TLS. I would much prefer to do the former, to say the least. Can you please advise on the wording of the amendment if it is a suitable alternative to rewriting a large amount of code? Please CC me; I'm not subscribed. Thanks, Josh
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