Re: Bug#745872: ITP: profanity -- a console based XMPP client

[Jeroen Dekkers <jeroen@dekkers.ch>]

At Sun, 27 Apr 2014 08:22:59 +0200,
Dariusz Dwornikowski wrote:
> 
> > Dariusz Dwornikowski <dariusz.dwornikowski@cs.put.poznan.pl> writes:
> > 
> > >> PKG_CHECK_MODULES([openssl], [openssl], [],
> > >>     [AC_MSG_ERROR([openssl is required for profanity])])
> > >> 
> > >> The resulting binary cannot be distributed.
> > 
> > > Could You elaborate on that ? Why would openssl ban the binary to be
> > > distributable ?
> > 
> > The GPL and the OpenSSL license are incompatible.
> > 
> 
> Thank You Russ,
> 
> Would it be ok if upstream adds the clause as explained in [1] ? The
> upstream is very responsive and open to all suggestions, so it should
> not be a problem. 
>
>
> [1] https://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2004/05/msg00595.html

Please use a wording that also grants permission to link to forks of
OpenSSL such as LibreSSL, in case LibreSSL or another fork is
preferred over OpenSSL in the future. You can take wget as an example:

http://metadata.ftp-master.debian.org/changelogs/main/w/wget/wget_1.15-1_copyright


Jeroen Dekkers