Bug#541819: GPL-licensed programs link to OpenSSL
Christoph Berg
myon at debian.org
Sun May 15 17:56:33 UTC 2016
Re: Osamu Aoki 2016-05-05 <20160505141508.GB26421 at goofy.local>
> As for https://bugs.debian.org/541819 , can we check if it is still
> problem. In short, Jakub raises issue for uscan and bts.
>
> As for uscan, I see the changelog:
> | devscripts (2.13.5) unstable; urgency=low
> |
> | [ James McCoy ]
> | ...
> | * uscan:
> | ...
> | + Require LWP::Protocol::https instead of Crypt::SSLeay to access https
> | sites. (Closes: #624317)
> | ...
> | -- James McCoy <jamessan at debian.org> Wed, 04 Dec 2013 22:27:45 -0500
> LWP is provided by libwww-perl which is Artistic or GPL-1+.
>
>
> As for bts, it uses Net::SMTP::SSL since 2008-06 and it is provided by
> the libnet-smtp-ssl-perl package which is Artistic or GPL-1+.
>
> So as far as the direct dependency, both are OK even from Jakub's POV.
>
> Can anyone tip in to evaluate this situation?
I'd think if this issue wasn't important enough to get fixed in the
past 7 years, we can just close it now.
> PS: I am more or less with Christoph's point that the license
> incompatibility for SSLeay is not an issue for perl programs at all.
I've never heard anything to the contrary, but IANAL.
Christoph
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