The GPL (both, version 2 and 3) are incompatible with the OpenSSL license. (OpenSSL has requirements on attribution, which from the GPL's point of view is a further requirement which is forbidden.) See https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#GPLIncompatibleLibs for some more details. Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- LICENSES/exceptions/OpenSSL-exception | 12 ++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+) create mode 100644 LICENSES/exceptions/OpenSSL-exception diff --git a/LICENSES/exceptions/OpenSSL-exception b/LICENSES/exceptions/OpenSSL-exception new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..280c116d4e46 --- /dev/null +++ b/LICENSES/exceptions/OpenSSL-exception @@ -0,0 +1,12 @@ +SPDX-Exception-Identifier: OpenSSL-exception +SPDX-Licenses: GPL-2.0-or-later, GPL-2.0-only +License-Text: + +In addition, as a special exception the copyright holders give +permission to link the code of this program with the OpenSSL Library (or with +modified versions of OpenSSL that use the same license as OpenSSL), and +distribute linked combinations including the two. You must obey the GNU General +Public License in all respects for all of the code used other than OpenSSL. If +you modify this file, you may extend this exception to your version of the +file, but you are not obligated to do so. If you do not wish to do so, delete +this exception statement from your version. -- 2.27.0 _______________________________________________ barebox mailing list barebox@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/barebox
