Mail Notification: OpenSSL+GPL on Debian
Hello debian-legal
First off, apologies if I'm out of place in sending you this, or if
it's already been discussed here before. I did search the archives
[0], but didn't see any mention of this particular suggestion.
As I understand things, there's currently a stalemate between the
Debian policy, and the package author. I can see in the Ubuntu bug
report [1] that there is what appears to be a well-written solution,
with which the package author agrees, in comment #86 [2]. I am not a
lawyer however, so would like to get the go-ahead from debian-legal.
Does this logic seem sound from a legal point-of-view?
Following on with that idea, would something as simple as the attached
patch be sufficient to resolve this stalemate? If not, could you
perhaps suggest suitable wording?
I use Mail Notification on other distributions with TLS support and
find it very useful. Without such support its usefulness is limited
(although not quite to zero in my case) on by Debian installs.
Cheers
Dan
[0] http://lists.debian.org/cgi-bin/search?query=mail-notification&DEFAULTOP=and&list=debian-legal
[1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/mail-notification/+bug/44335
[2] https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/mail-notification/+bug/44335/comments/86
--- README.orig 2011-06-24 16:06:29.000000000 +1200
+++ README 2011-06-24 16:13:09.000000000 +1200
@@ -80,7 +80,7 @@
FetchYahoo
http://fetchyahoo.twizzler.org/
- * for SSL/TLS support:
+ * for SSL/TLS support (strongly recommended):
OpenSSL (version 0.9.6 or superior)
http://www.openssl.org/
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