Bug#426960: bitstormlite: GPL application (indirectly) linking to OpenSSL
Package: bitstormlite
Version: 0.2k-1
Severity: serious
Justification: license incompatibility
The bitstormlite package currently in archive, 0.2k-1, links to
libcurl4-openssl, and therefore indirectly links to libssl. Since
bitstormlite is licensed under GPL with no exceptions, I believe there
is an license incompatibility and the binary package is undistributable
as is.
Maybe just building depend on libcurl4-gnutls-dev and therefore linking
to libcurl4-gnutls will solve the problem, but I didn't test. In any
case, libcurl3-dev is no longer a real package and shouldn't be used as
build dependency.
This is the first time I report a bug about licensing issue, and I am
not sure I am understanding everything correctly. Therefore I am cc:ing
debian-legal list for confirmation.
Ming
2007.05.31
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