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Re: GPL-licensed packages with depend-chain to OpenSSL



On Thu, Aug 12, 2004 at 03:22:34PM +0200, Daniel Stenberg wrote:
> There this package in recent Debian named 'curl' (using a MIT-like 
> license). It is built with OpenSSL (you all know the OpenSSL license).
> 
> With curl there comes two (that we care about here) debian packages 
> nowadays named libcurl2 and libcurl3 (libcurl3 being the new ABI and 
> libcurl2 the older one). Both are linked against the OpenSSL libraries.
> 
> Many applications use libcurl. Including several applications/packages in 
> Debian unstable that are GPL-licensed.

Yes, we've done this before, but never reached a meaningful
conclusion. It's really knotty.

I'm aware of a few other package combinations like this.

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