Raul Miller wrote:
If "distribute" meant "distribute in the form of debian packages asdefined by the semantics of dpkg" as opposed to "distribute whatever the mechanism", we'd be golden.
As long as we don't distribute GPL'd code linked with OpenSSL in "object code or executable form", but only as source code, we don't have a GPL problem AFAICT (source code, of course, being defined as always by the GPL as "...the preferred form of the work for making modifications to it.")
As I'm sure you're aware, debian's source code format is a tarball and a diff. I don't think there is any question that is an allowed way to distribute source under the GPL (and if it is not, we've got much bigger problems).