Re: docsis linking to libsnmp which links against libopenssl
On Sun, Jun 2, 2013 at 3:55 PM, Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez
<perezmeyer@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi everyone! I have a question about the license status of a package I
> maintain, docsis.
>
> Docsis uses libsnmp. In turn, since the last upload, libsnmp added -lcrypto,
> making it link against libopenssl.
>
> Docsis is under the GPL with no openssl exception, so at first sight it could
> be an offender, but:
>
> - It links against another libs which in turn uses libopenssl.
> - It doesn't make use of any of it's crypto stuff.
Not distribuable
Ask libsnmp to use libnss or even the compatibility layer
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Nss_compat_ossl
(I will package this some days) if you do not want to depth modify libsnmp
Bastien
> What do you think the status of docsis is then?
>
> Kinds regards, Lisandro.
>
> --
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>
> Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer
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