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Re: Licensing question



On 05/18/2011 02:15 PM, Elías Alejandro wrote:
> Hi all,
> I want your advices about a package that requires in its new 
> upstream release, as build dependency: libcurl4-openssl-dev
> Previous releases was built with libcurl4-gnutls-dev and packaging
> under GPL-3.
> So, If there any licence issue if it is compiled with libcurl4-openssl-dev
> instead of libcurl4-gnutls-dev and packaging under GPL-3?
> I was reading [1], point 28 but I'm not sure because it isn't directly
> the OpenSSL library.

If you link against code which links against OpenSSL, IANAL, but I think
you also need to have the exception in your own code.

Otherwise, somebody could write a small wrapper library and work around
the OpenSSL licensing issues. Which we can't, sadly.

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