On Mon, 2008-08-25 at 20:04 +0200, Hans de Goede wrote:
Hi All,
The story begins here: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=446860
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I would like to suggest the removal of libgnutls-openssl from Fedora,...
That will probably create many legal problems. If there's a way to keep this package, we should.
As many of you know, the basic problem is that the OpenSSL license is incompatible with the GPL: http://www.fsf.org/licensing/licenses/ http://www.gnome.org/~markmc/openssl-and-the-gpl.html http://www.mail-archive.com/debian-bugs-dist@lists.debian.org/msg426067.html http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2002/10/msg00113.html
Any program that links to libgnutls-openssl that has GPL'ed components probably CANNOT be legally linked to OpenSSL.
--- David A. Wheeler