On Fri, Apr 03, 2009 at 01:35:30AM +0200, Cristian Greco wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 02, 2009 at 08:27:19PM +0300, Adrian Bunk wrote:
>
> > $ ldd /usr/bin/qbittorrent | grep ssl
> > libssl.so.0.9.8 => /usr/lib/libssl.so.0.9.8 (0x00007fd73085a000)
> > $
> >
> >
> > /usr/share/doc/qbittorrent/copyright states that much of the code
> > is GPL-licenced.
> >
> > I didn't find any statement that all copyright holders of GPL'ed code
> > in tracker have given extra permission to link with OpenSSL.
> >
> >
> > See also question 28 at
> > http://people.debian.org/~bap/dfsg-faq
>
> Hi Adrian,
>
> first of all thanks for your report.
>
> qbittorrent does not use directly the OpenSSL library, as you can see looking
> at the source code and the symbols table of the (unstripped) executable file.
> It is linked against two libraries using libssl (libtorrent-rasterbar and
> libcurl), and there are some symbols from boost::asio related to 'ssl'.
>
> And by the way, even if the majority of the C++ code in qbittorrent is
> released
> under the GPL, the debian/copyright file includes a mix of files with
> different
> licenses (LGPL, BSD, MIT), so that lintian does not complain about linking
> against libssl.
>
> Any suggestion?
The libcurl case might be easy to resolve, but I don't know anything
about the libtorrent-rasterbar.
It might be required that you get all copyright holders to agree on a
licence exception.
> Thanks,
cu
Adrian
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