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Re: Do Debian now simply ignore OpenSSL incomatibilities with GPL?



Am 20.10.20 um 15:16 schrieb Jonas Smedegaard:
> This was just now brought to my attention: 
> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=924937#105
> 
> Do I understand correctly that Debian now ignore OpenSSL 
> incomatibilities with GPL?
> 
> I.e. do we no longer need to either a) seek special exception for each 
> and every piece of GPL-licensed code linking with current or older 
> OpenSSL code, or b) patch such code to instead link with some 
> alternative crypto library, or c) wait for relicensd OpenSSL 3.0.0?
> 

Yeah. I guess an official email from the ftp-master team regarding this
issue would be a good idea.

Fwiw, I think this this is a reasonable decision by the ftp-master team
and I support it.

Michael

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