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Re: System libraries and the GPLv2



On 29/03/17 15:58, Dmitry Alexandrov wrote:
>> On 26/03/17 01:01, Walter Landry wrote:
>>> Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de> wrote:
>>>>> #5 Declare GMP to be a system library.
>>>>>
>>>> (snip)
>>>>
>>>>> #5 was how Fedora looked at the OpenSSL library issue. Since Debian
>>>>> has another viewpoint on OpenSSL I somehow doubt we would use it for
>>>>> GMP.
>>>>
>>>> I would like to suggest to treat more libraries as eligible for the
>>>> system library exception within Debian.
>>>
>>> The traditional interpretation as I understand it is that nothing
>>> Debian ships qualifies for the the system exception.  This is because
>>> Debian ships everything together, and the system exception only
>>> applies for components that do not accompany the executable.
>>>
>>
>> Debian ships everything together? Really?
> 
> Yes.  http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/current/amd64/iso-dvd/
> 
> 

I don't see there an image named debian-8.7.1-amd64-DVD-X_free-but-GPL-incompatible.iso 

So... does this means that we are actually *now* shipping OpenSSL with
GPL software on the same DVD?

How do you propose we fix this?


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