Re: Bug#1094969: git linked with OpenSSL
Le Wed, Apr 16, 2025 at 08:39:18AM +0200, Ansgar 🙀 a écrit :
> Hi,
>
> On Wed, 2025-04-16 at 07:27 +0200, Simon Josefsson wrote:
> > Yes that seems likely. I think that the decision in other distributions
> > may have had more to do with aligning interests with organization who
> > fund them, though.
>
> This is moving into conspiracy theory territory... We can as well
> suspect reptiloids behind this.
This is uncalled for. Saying that Fedora is influenced by RedHat for
example is not a conspiracy theory.
Debian has traditionally adopted a stricter approach to licenses than
other distributions.
> Debian has always allowed GPL-2-only code linked against GPL-3+-only
> libraries such as the libstdc++ or GCC runtime libraries. (You ignore
> that libraries aside of OpenSSL exist.)
Note that libstdc++ and GCC runtime libraries are covered by the
GCC Runtime Library Exception which is different from the system
library exception.
Cheers,
Bill.
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