Once upon a time, David A. Wheeler <dwheeler@xxxxxxxxxxxx> said: > 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: Aside from the "system library" exemption already mentioned, most GPL software that links against OpenSSL has a specific exemption in the documentation. > Any program that links to libgnutls-openssl that has GPL'ed components > probably CANNOT be legally linked to OpenSSL. The flip side of that is that libgnutls-openssl is GPLv3+, which means that anything under GPLv2-only or any other non-GPLv3-compatible license may not be able to use it. I'm not sure, since it implements somebody else's interface; can anything using the OpenSSL library API be considered a derived work of libgnutls-openssl (by virtue of linking)? -- Chris Adams <cmadams@xxxxxxxxxx> Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble. -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
