Bug#972181: possible-gpl-code-linked-with-openssl tag/test can be retired

[Moritz Mühlenhoff <jmm@inutil.org>]

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

And even with the license change in OpenSSL 3 to the Apache license 2, this
would still be an "issue" for any code base which is GPL-2 only.

Cheers,
        Moritz