[Fedora-legal-list] Linking of GPL-only and GPL-incompatible libraries

[Florian Weimer]

What's Fedora's stance on linking GPL-only libraries into the same 
process as a library which is considered GPL-incompatible (such as 
4-clause BSD) if this linking happens rather indirectly?

We currently link psql against both libreadline and libcrypto/libssl 
(OpenSSL), so if that is okay, more indirect linking should be 
acceptable as well.

However, I'm not sure I'd appreciate that if I were a GPL-only library 
author who chose that license deliberately (perhaps even with a desire 
to sell alternative licensing), and some intermediate libraries makes my 
work available under a more permissive license, only wrapped in a 
different programming interface.

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Florian Weimer / Red Hat Product Security Team