Re: Bacula and OpenSSL
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Dear all
Following comments on FSF's position regarding OpenSSL as a System
Library in Debian, Brett Smith at FSF sent the following message:
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I apologize for my misunderstandings about OpenSSL's status in Debian,
and appreciate the corrections. However, even given all this
information, I still don't see how OpenSSL meets part (a) of the System
Library definition. What is the Major Component that OpenSSL
accompanies? Kernels always come with C libraries, and GCC always comes
with libgcc. What package comes with OpenSSL? I understand that there
are some pretty important applications that require OpenSSL, such as
apt, but that's not the same thing as accompanying apt. Moreover,
"pretty important" isn't the same thing as "essential" in the very
narrow sense the license aims to define it in.
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I hope this helps clarify things. :)
Regards
Shane
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Shane Coughlan
FTF Coordinator
Free Software Foundation Europe
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coughlan@fsfeurope.org
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