"Kari Pahula" <kaol@debian.org> wrote in message [🔎] 20060512113818.GA22626@sammakko.yok.utu.fi">news:[🔎] 20060512113818.GA22626@sammakko.yok.utu.fi...
I've an ITP, #366834, on a library called cxxtools (which already created a bit of controversy on -devel). The reason I'm packaging cxxtools is because tntnet (ITP #361010) uses it.
Both are licensed under GPLv2 or later.
Tntnet links to libssl, which is GPL-incompatible. Upstream already added an exception to tntnet to allow linking to libssl, but would cxxtools need one also? Both have the same upstream.
Would this scenario imply libssl+cxxtools to be a derived work?
Hmm... RMS would probably say so. Others may disagree. The safest bet isto ask upstream for a licence exception.