Re: Linking of GPL-only and GPL-incompatible libraries

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On 11/21/2013 05:02 PM, David Woodhouse wrote:
On Wed, 2013-11-20 at 15:48 -0500, Tom Callaway wrote:
For OpenSSL, we consider that a system library, so the point is somewhat
irrelevant in that case.

Of course, we should not let that dissuade people from porting to GnuTLS
and rendering the question irrelevant for that reason instead :)

That's actually not true—you still need to invoke the system library exception for GPLv2-only programs because one of the dependencies, GMP, is LGPLv3+ in its current versions. Attempts to dual-license it under LPGLv3+ and GPLv2, like GNUTLS itself, have failed so far.

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Florian Weimer / Red Hat Product Security Team
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