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Re: Bug#291945: eleventh-hour transition for mysql-using packages related to apache



On Sat, Feb 12, 2005 at 09:17:44AM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 12, 2005 at 09:53:34AM +0100, Francesco Paolo Lovergine wrote:
> > > > Nice, so we should check that any linked GPL library directly (obviuolsy) or
> > > > indirectly (with N=1,2,3... levels of indirection) linked against
> > > > openssl adds the exception.
> 
> > > No, we should simply not be linking libmysqlclient against OpenSSL.  The
> > > exemption was needed because there exists software that uses both
> > > libmysqlclient and libssl, but making libmysqlclient itself use libssl just
> > > because we now have the exemption will cause licensing problems for
> > > applications which currently do *not* depend on libssl.
> 
> > That's clear, I meant simply that if program A links libB which links libC
> > which links libssl, than both A, libB and libC should add the exception,
> > isn't it? That's independently from having A using libssl functions
> > directly or not.
> 
> That's true; I'm merely pointing out the importance of not turning
> libmysqlclient into libC here.
> 

So what if we had two editions of libmysqlclient, one of them
ssl-enabled and the other - as currently - not? That would allow
using ssl whenever possible. I think that could be done, without
breaking things.

-- 
Francesco P. Lovergine



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