[self-followup]
On Mon, Jul 12, 2004 at 03:10:49AM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote:
> [debian-legal: please see <URL: http://bugs.debian.org/258057 >]
[...]
> Under the Free Software Foundation's interpretation of the GNU GPL, this is
> also true if Hydra links against GNU GPL-licensed libraries.
I checked into this, and it doesn't appear to be the case.
516 branden@sisyphus:~$ dlocate -L hydra
/.
/usr
/usr/bin
/usr/bin/hydra
/usr/bin/pw-inspector
/usr/share
/usr/share/doc
/usr/share/doc/hydra
/usr/share/doc/hydra/LICENCE.HYDRA
/usr/share/doc/hydra/copyright
/usr/share/doc/hydra/changelog.gz
/usr/share/doc/hydra/README.gz
/usr/share/doc/hydra/changelog.Debian.gz
517 branden@sisyphus:~$ ldd $(which hydra)
libm.so.6 => /lib/libm.so.6 (0x0ff6c000)
libssl.so.0.9.7 => /usr/lib/libssl.so.0.9.7 (0x0ff1a000)
libcrypto.so.0.9.7 => /usr/lib/libcrypto.so.0.9.7 (0x0fde3000)
libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x0fc85000)
libdl.so.2 => /lib/libdl.so.2 (0x0fc62000)
/lib/ld.so.1 => /lib/ld.so.1 (0x30000000)
518 branden@sisyphus:~$ ldd $(which pw-inspector)
libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x0fea2000)
/lib/ld.so.1 => /lib/ld.so.1 (0x30000000)
It is well known that the GNU C library is not GPLed, but LGPLed.
However, the above did expose a different problem.
The OpenSSL license, which applies to libssl.so.0.9.7 and
libcrypto.so.0.9.7, is not GNU GPL-compatible, and therefore Debian
requires an OpenSSL exception clause to be added to this package before we
can redistribute it.[1]
[1] http://www.gnome.org/~markmc/openssl-and-the-gpl.html
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