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Re: GPL-3 & openssl: provide a -nossl variant for a library



On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 10:11:41AM +0200, Florian Weimer wrote:
> But Fedora, whose policies Richard Fontana helped to shape over the
> years, considers OpenSSL to be a library covered by the system library
> exception.

But legal advice is not necessarily portable. As a project, we can
certainly decide to start considering OpenSSL a system library, on the
basis of legal advice. But to do so we should seek legal advice
specifically targeted at the Debian case, and discuss the advice we get
with the relevant stakeholders (e.g., the FSF, with whom we have pretty
good connections these days).

Cheers.
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