On Tue, Oct 15, 2002 at 07:58:46PM -0500, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Wed, Oct 16, 2002 at 01:41:22AM +0200, Stefan Hornburg wrote: > > I asked the upstream author and he told me that he has certainly no > > problem with linking Courier against OpenSSL. He won't make the > > mentioned exemption, because he thinks it is simply not necessary. > > > Can you please tell me if it'll cause problem to integrate the SSL > > parts into the Courier packages ? > > It will cause problems. The short explanation is that Debian does not > believe it can take advantage of the GPL "operating system" exemption > in connection with software that we are making *part* of our operating > system. If you need further explanation, I would advise you to consult > the archive for this mailing list; the discussions of OpenSSL here are > lengthy, and not at all hard to find. :) What Steve said. I don't understand how the author of Courier can both: 1) have no problem with people linking his software against OpenSSL; 2) be unwilling to explicitly state a license exception. A clear communication of the former logically implies the latter. I recommend not linking Courier against OpenSSL until this is clarfied. Does GNU TLS's OpenSSL compatiblity layer provide sufficient functionality for Courier to work with it? (apt-get install libgnutls5-dev) -- G. Branden Robinson | If you wish to strive for peace of Debian GNU/Linux | soul, then believe; if you wish to branden@debian.org | be a devotee of truth, then http://people.debian.org/~branden/ | inquire. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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