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Re: possible-gpl-code-linked-with-openssl



Dominik George <nik@naturalnet.de> writes:

> That said, I my personal opinion is that doing the above is plain
> nonsense from a FOSS point of view, and if upstream's intention is to
> produce open software, they have to respond to the license issue.

Unfortunately, upstreams don't necessarily see it that way.  I've seen
upstreams just refuse to add the license exception on the grounds that
they think Debian's concern is silly and they refuse to cater to it.
*sigh*

-- 
Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org)               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>


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