Re: deluge, python-libtorrent and OpenSSL
В Sun, 05 Apr 2009 18:17:18 +0200, Cristian Greco написа:
> The python-libtorrent package contains bindings for
> libtorrent-rasterbar, which in turn gets linked against OpenSSL. So, is
> it right to ask upstream to add the exception?
FWIW, some time ago I asked licensing@fsf.org about a similar situation:
gajim (a python program) uses optionally python-openssl, which links
against libssl. It was my understanding that even if this is not a
scenario with classic linking, the same judgement should apply.
I reported this upstream [1] but it looked like they don't agree at all
with this interpretation. Following the discussion there, I wrote to
licensing@ CCing the main upstream author (who is also the Debian
maintainer of the gajim package). They confirmed that Gajim's license
should have the OpenSSL exception, as using the Python OpenSSL bindings
is essentially equal to the case when a GPL'ed C program uses OpenSSL.
The fact that python-openssl is not a hard dependency (i.e. only a
Recommends: relationship is declared) doesn't matter.
There is no problem with python-openssl itself, as it's LGPL. But other
python applications and modules using it, directly or indirectly, should
have the exception (of course only if they are GPL'ed).
[1] http://www.lagaule.org/pipermail/gajim-devel/2009-January/000583.html
IANAL, IANADD, TINLA -- I'm just sharing my experience about an almost
identical case.
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