Re: Bug#147668: base-files: please include the OpenSSL license
On 21 May 2002 15:14:18 -0500
"Jeff Licquia" <licquia@debian.org> wrote:
> On Tue, 2002-05-21 at 14:44, Stefan Hornburg (Racke) wrote:
> > Tomas Pospisek <tpo_deb@sourcepole.ch> writes:
> >
> >
> > [...]
> >
> > > But since linking against OpenSSL is now officially blessed and
> > > packages depending on openssl officially included in main, it'd be
> > > nice to have the license shipped with base (again it's at rank #24
> > > of most depended on packages, just behind kdelibs).
> >
> > Hm, that's new for me. Is linking GPL'ed software against
> > OpenSSL now OK ? Please give me a pointer if this is true.
>
> Nope.
Did we actually arive at a conclusion ?
I was recently considering packaging GNUnet, however it links to openssl,
is the official position that GPL'ed binaries that link to openssl should
be in non-US or contrib, or are we still in limbo ?
Some people say linking to openssl if fine, and that RMS himself is ok
with it, i find it hard to believe myself.
http://mail.gnu.org/pipermail/gnunet-developers/2002-May/000100.html
Is giving libssl a priority of standard enough to consider it normally
part of the base OS, or should it be required ? (to qualify for the escape
clause in the GPL)
Glenn
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