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Re: legal implications of linking to libssl/openssl



On Sun, 06 May 2018 04:08:26 +0000 Sandro Tosi wrote:

> > The situation is currently unchanged, the OpenSSL license is
> > incompatible with the GNU GPL family of licenses and an exception is
> > needed to allow combining code under those licenses and OpenSSL in the
> > same work.
> 
> > https://people.gnome.org/~markmc/openssl-and-the-gpl.html
> 
> thanks Paul, i'll talk with upstream about adding such an exception to
> transmission.

I would like to add that an exception will also be needed for other
GPL-licensed libraries (directly or indirectly) linked with
transmission, if any...

Moreover, I see that libssl1.1 is already among the dependencies of
transmission: is the program already linked with OpenSSL, without a
proper licensing exception?


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