On Wed, Jul 14, 2004 at 02:48:53PM -0400, Brian Thomas Sniffen wrote: > "Jamin W. Collins" <jcollins@asgardsrealm.net> writes: > > > I'm wondering if any of the frequent -legal posters would mind helping > > with a review of my proposed Jabberd2 packages. There was some concern > > over the original package and the fact that a GPL'd work was linked > > against OpenSSL. I understand this concern and the upstream author has > > been very cooperative in attempting to sort these matters out. An > > exception has been added for Jabberd2 to allow linking against OpenSSL, > > but I would like to try and make sure there aren't any other licensing > > problems. > > Iff: > > * The entire package is under the GNU GPL version 2 > > * and there's an exception to allow linking against OpenSSL > > * And every copyright holder on the package agreed to that exception > -- so it doesn't reuse GPL'd code from elsewhere, for example, > unless there's also a GPL exception for OpenSSL from the authors > of that code. > > THEN the GPL/OpenSSL issue is fine, and there are likely no other > licensing concerns. Jabberd2 is indeed licensed under the GPLv2, but the concern I have is over the various linkings of the package. The packages depended on by the various versions of the Jabberd2 builds are: libc6 libidn11 libmysqlclient12 libpam0g libpq3 libssl0.9.7 zlib1g libldap2 libdb4.2 The licenses are as follows (as far as I know): Sleepycat License?: - libdb4.2 BSD: x libpq3 x zlib1g GPLv2: * dpatch * debhelper - libmysqlclient12 GPLv2 & BSD: - libpam0g OpenLDAP Public License: - libldap2 LGPL: - libidn11 - libc6 OpenSSL & SSLeay: - libssl0.9.7 The items marked with a * aren't linked in the resulting binaries (obviously) but are used for the package creation. I'm not sure how this effects the licensing considerations if at all. Those marked with a x seem to resemble BSD license but don't exactly match the copy found in /usr/share/common-licenses/. I've attached the copyright files for the packages whose license is not in /usr/share/common-licenses/ (and those that differ) to this message (gzip'd to conserve the lists and subscribers bandwidth). -- Jamin W. Collins Remember, root always has a loaded gun. Don't run around with it unless you absolutely need it. -- Vineet Kumar
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