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Re: Bug#1094969: git linked with OpenSSL



Ansgar 🙀 <ansgar@debian.org> writes:

> No, that is not the core problem. Debian, like most other binary
> distributions, heavily relies on the system library exception in many,
> many places.

I believe that is a fairly new (~5 years?) approach within Debian.
Debian used to treat OpenSSL incompatible with GPLv2 and that all code
that link to OpenSSL has to have a GPL+OpenSSL exception.  Does anyone
recall how and when this decision was made?

Licensing wrt to libcurl and OpenSSL has been discussed before:

https://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2004/08/msg00221.html

/Simon

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