OoO Pendant le journal télévisé du samedi 19 avril 2008, vers 20:35,
Muammar El Khatib <muammarelkhatib@gmail.com> disait:
> I am maintaining tcltls, and now I have to upload a new version. When I ran
> lintian -iI I got this:
> W: tcltls: possible-gpl-code-linked-with-openssl
> N:
> N: This package appears to be covered by the GNU GPL but depends on the
> N: OpenSSL libssl package and does not mention a license exemption or
> N: exception for OpenSSL in its copyright file. The GPL (including
> N: version 3) is incompatible with some terms of the OpenSSL license, and
> N: therefore Debian does not allow GPL-licensed code linked with OpenSSL
> N: libraries unless there is a license exception explicitly permitting
> N: this.
> N:
> N: If only the Debian packaging, or some other part of the package not
> N: linked with OpenSSL, is covered by the GNU GPL, please add a lintian
> N: override for this tag. Lintian currently has no good way of
> N: distinguishing between that case and problematic packages.
> I am not sure how to handle this Lintian Warning. I'd be glad if someone could
> tell me what I have to do in this case. I added copyright terms of openssl, but
> Lintian still showing that warning. So in this case, how a license exemption for
> OpenSSL should be done?
Hi Muammar!
You cannot just add yourself the exception in debian/copyright. You
should ask upstream about this issue and tell him to add the exception
which allows to link OpenSSL to his program. This is an important issue
since your have a copyright problem with your package.
Another solution is to use GNU TLS instead of OpenSSL. But this leads to
some invasive changes I think.
When upstream fixes this copyright issue, you need to add a lintian
override as stated in the warning. A lintian override is a file that you
install in /usr/share/lintian/overrides/tcltls and that contains:
tcltls: possible-gpl-code-linked-with-openssl
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panic("Lucy in the sky....");
2.2.16 /usr/src/linux/arch/sparc64/kernel/starfire.c
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