Re: Bug#522311: qbittorrent: Linked with OpenSSL, seems to be a GPL violation
On Sat, Apr 4, 2009 at 22:25, Cristian Greco <cristian.debian@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Sat, Apr 4, 2009 at 17:43, Cristian Greco <cristian.debian@gmail.com> wrote:
>> > 1) What to do in this case? Should all clients based on libtorrent-rasterbar
>> > and licensed under the GPL add an exception even if they don't directly use the
>> > OpenSSL library?
>> >
>> libtorrent-rasterbar should provide two packages, one is
>> libtorrent-rasterbar-openssl (with openssl enabled), another is
>> libtorrent-rasterbar (with openssl disabled), just like libcurl3 and
>> libcurl3-gnutls.
>
> This is not what I was looking for (and this solution wouldn't be useful, as
> all existing clients actually require encryption to be enabled). My question is
> if it is really needed for all clients licensed under the GPL to add an
> exception even if they don't directly use the OpenSSL library.
> This could be a problem, eventually.
>
yes, it is really needed, if you want to run OpenSSL and GPL code in
the same process.
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Best Regards
LI Daobing
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