On Sat, Mar 14, 2009 at 01:48:41PM +0000, Stephen Gran wrote:
> This one time, at band camp, Adrian Bunk said:
> > On Sat, Mar 14, 2009 at 12:40:19PM +0100, Michael Biebl wrote:
> > >
> > > Tracker itself does not link against libssl. Problems seems to be, that
> > > it uses
> > > libraptor, which itself uses libcurl3, that then pulls libssl.
> > >
> > > I don't see, how I can do something about that within the tracker
> > > package. FWIW,
> > > the tracker debian package has no dependency on libssl.
> > >
> > > Could you clarify, where you see the license violation.
> >
> > OpenSSL has a not GPL compatible licence, and tracker is a GPLed program
> > that is (through intermediate libraries) linked with OpenSSL.
>
> Another way to ask the question is: Since the package linking to libssl
> is out of the control of the tracker maintainer, in what way is this
> helpful? Shouldn't the report go against that library?
Technically the library itself is fine. Solving the problem most likely
involves a change to the library, but the package with a RC GPL
violation is tracker.
> Cheers,
cu
Adrian
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