(CCing the git bug)
On Thu, Feb 13, 2025 at 12:37:01AM +0000, brian m. carlson wrote:
Since Git links against libcurl3t64-gnutls, it is now undistributable
since it's GPLv2 and OpenSSL is incompatibly licensed.
My understanding is that Debian now invokes the system library exception
for OpenSSL and no longer considers this a problem.
https://meetbot.debian.net/debian-ftp/2020/debian-ftp.2020-03-13-20.02.html
Other packages also consider it as having resolved their GPL issues,
e.g. <https://bugs.debian.org/924937>.
I hope I haven't misunderstood.
If you disagree with ftp-master about the system library exception, I
have to ask you to take that up with them, or the TC.
http://bugs.debian.org/1094969 tracks the bug in Git, but I don't think
the change can be made in Git and either OpenLDAP needs to use GnuTLS
again or libcurl4-gnutls needs to not link against OpenLDAP.
OpenLDAP upstream are planning to delete the GnuTLS backend soon, so
I'll be very reluctant to revert this switch unless someone else steps
up to maintain that support.
thanks,
Ryan
