Bug#379147: fusedav and SSL

[Lennart Poettering <mzqrovna@0pointer.de>]

On Thu, 24.08.06 17:59, Sebastian Harl (sh@tokkee.org) wrote:

> Hi Lennart,

Hi!

> fusedav is linking against SSL (by using neon). As fusedav is licensed under
> the GPL I'm not allowed to link it against OpenSSL unless you explicitly allow
> me to do so in your README file (see [1]). Would you please be so kind to add
> an appropriate paragraph to your README file or do you want me to link against
> GnuTLS (which I did not test so far, as there is no neon26-gnutls package in
> Debian [yet]).

Isn't it necessary that NEON's author adds the same exception clause
to his license? Or is this no problem because he chose the LGPL?

I am of course OK with changing the license of fusedav to add this
clause, but I wonder if that is sufficient.

Adding the following sentence to LICENSE is all that is required on my side,
right?

<snip>
    Linking fusedav statically or dynamically with other modules is making
    a combined work based on fusedav. Thus, the terms and conditions of
    the GNU General Public License cover the whole combination.

    In addition, as a special exception, the copyright holders of fusedav
    give you permission to combine fusedav program with free software
    programs or libraries that are released under the GNU LGPL and
    with code included in the standard release of OpenSSL under the OpenSSL
    license (or modified versions of such code, with unchanged
    license). You may copy and distribute such a system following the
    terms of the GNU GPL for fusedav and the licenses of the other code
    concerned, provided that you include the source code of that other
    code when and as the GNU GPL requires distribution of source code.

    Note that people who make modified versions of fusedav are not
    obligated to grant this special exception for their modified
    versions; it is their choice whether to do so. The GNU General
    Public License gives permission to release a modified version
    without this exception; this exception also makes it possible to
    release a modified version which carries forward this exception.
</snip>

Using GnuTLS instead of OpenSSL would be cool, though.

(Ich kann übrigens auch Deutsch.)

Lennart

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