On Tue, 13 Oct 2020 23:08:44 +0200 =?UTF-8?Q?Moritz_M=C3=BChlenhoff?= <jmm@inutil.org> wrote: > On Tue, Oct 13, 2020 at 01:56:40PM -0700, Felix Lechner wrote: > > Hi Moritz, > > > > On Tue, Oct 13, 2020 at 1:33 PM Moritz Muehlenhoff <jmm@debian.org> wrote: > > > > > > FTP masters are now treating OpenSSL as a system library, which makes > > > it GPL compatible > > > > According to the OpenSSL website, the new license applies from 3.0.0 > > onward [1], but unstable still ships 1.1.1h (with 3.0.0 in > > experimental). You probably waited five years for this, but is this > > removal request still a tiny bit premature? > > > > [1] https://www.openssl.org/source/license.html > > The decision by FTP masters is totally independent of the license change > for OpenSSL 3.0. In fact the same policy has been applied by Red Hat/Fedora basically > since forever, see http://meetbot.debian.net/debian-ftp/2020/debian-ftp.2020-03-13-20.02.html See also https://salsa.debian.org/ftp-team/website/-/merge_requests/6 The ftp-team removed the relevant OpenSSL section from their REJECT criteria website. Regards, Michael
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