Hi Luca On http://people.gnome.org/~markmc/openssl-and-the-gpl.html I found the following suggestion:
"In addition, as a special exception, the copyright holders give permission to link the code of portions of this program with the OpenSSL library under certain conditions as described in each individual source file, 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 file(s) with this exception, you may extend this exception to your version of the file(s), but you are not obligated to do so. If you do not wish to do so, delete this exception statement from your version. If you delete this exception statement from all source files in the program, then also delete it here." And then modify each source file that make use of openssl. This is what wget use for example. On the openssl page http://www.openssl.org/support/faq.html#LEGAL2 I found the following suggestion, which sounds easier "This program is released under the GPL with the additional exemption that compiling, linking, and/or using OpenSSL is allowed." However all this depends on that it is actually your code that you add this for. I do not know who developed the openssl part of the code. Hope this helps! Best regards, // Ola On Sat, Sep 04, 2010 at 12:17:15PM +0200, Luca Deri wrote: > Ola/Jordan > tell me exactly what I need to write in the license and I will do > > Thanks Luca > > On Sep 4, 2010, at 11:42 AM, Ola Lundqvist wrote: > > > Hi Luca > > > > On Sat, Sep 04, 2010 at 11:20:22AM +0200, Luca Deri wrote: > >> Ola > >> first of all please package ntop 4 not 3. > > > > Ok. I have given over the maintenance of ntop to Jordan who is > > Cc on this email. I think Jordan is working on a new packaged > > version. > > > > However Debian squeeze is "frozen" which means that no new > > versions will be allowed. Only smaller changes. > > > >> Then I suggest to compile ntop without SSL support that's optional in ntop. > > > > You do not have the possibility to add such an addition text to the > > license to allow ssl linking? > > > > Best regards, > > > > // Ola > > > >> Regards Luca > >> > >> On Sep 4, 2010, at 10:37 AM, Ola Lundqvist wrote: > >> > >>> Hi Luca > >>> > >>> I got this bug in Debian. Do you have any good idea on how we can solve > >>> this. Can you release a special 3.3 version (based on 3.3) that have > >>> such an addition to the license? > >>> > >>> Best regards, > >>> > >>> // Ola > >>> > >>> On Fri, Sep 03, 2010 at 08:25:11PM -0400, Jordan Metzmeier wrote: > >>>> Package: ntop > >>>> Version: 3:3.3-14 > >>>> Severity: serious > >>>> Justification: Policy 2.2.1 > >>>> > >>>> This package is GPL but links with openssl without a linking exception > >>>> in the license. > >>>> > >>>> jor...@tesla ~/build/ntop/squeeze/ntop-3.3 $ ldd /usr/sbin/ntop | grep > >>>> 'ssl' > >>>> libssl.so.0.9.8 => /usr/lib/i686/cmov/libssl.so.0.9.8 (0xb6f1d000) > >>>> > >>>> This can be fixed by removing --with-sslv3 from debian/rules and > >>>> removing the depends. > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> -- System Information: > >>>> Debian Release: squeeze/sid > >>>> APT prefers experimental > >>>> APT policy: (990, 'experimental'), (990, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), > >>>> (1, 'unstable') > >>>> Architecture: i386 (i686) > >>>> > >>>> Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-686-bigmem (SMP w/4 CPU cores) > >>>> Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8) > >>>> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash > >>>> > >>>> Versions of packages ntop depends on: > >>>> ii adduser 3.112 add and remove users and > >>>> groups > >>>> ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.35 Debian configuration > >>>> management sy > >>>> ii libc6 2.11.2-2 Embedded GNU C Library: > >>>> Shared lib > >>>> ii libgdbm3 1.8.3-9 GNU dbm database routines > >>>> (runtime > >>>> ii libpcap0.8 1.1.1-2 system interface for > >>>> user-level pa > >>>> ii librrd4 1.4.3-2 time-series data storage > >>>> and displ > >>>> ii libssl0.9.8 0.9.8o-1 SSL shared libraries > >>>> ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3.4.dfsg-3 compression library - > >>>> runtime > >>>> > >>>> ntop recommends no packages. > >>>> > >>>> Versions of packages ntop suggests: > >>>> pn graphviz <none> (no description available) > >>>> ii gsfonts 1:8.11+urwcyr1.0.7~pre44-4.2 Fonts for the Ghostscript > >>>> interpre > >>>> > >>>> -- debconf information excluded > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> > >>> > >>> -- > >>> --------------------- Ola Lundqvist --------------------------- > >>> / o...@debian.org Annebergsslingan 37 \ > >>> | o...@inguza.com 654 65 KARLSTAD | > >>> | http://inguza.com/ +46 (0)70-332 1551 | > >>> \ gpg/f.p.: 7090 A92B 18FE 7994 0C36 4FE4 18A1 B1CF 0FE5 3DD9 / > >>> --------------------------------------------------------------- > >> > >> --- > >> Keep looking, don't settle - Steve Jobs > >> > >> > > > > -- > > --- Inguza Technology AB --- MSc in Information Technology ---- > > / o...@inguza.com Annebergsslingan 37 \ > > | o...@debian.org 654 65 KARLSTAD | > > | http://inguza.com/ Mobile: +46 (0)70-332 1551 | > > \ gpg/f.p.: 7090 A92B 18FE 7994 0C36 4FE4 18A1 B1CF 0FE5 3DD9 / > > --------------------------------------------------------------- > > --- > We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we > created them - Albert Einstein > > > > -- --------------------- Ola Lundqvist --------------------------- / o...@debian.org Annebergsslingan 37 \ | o...@inguza.com 654 65 KARLSTAD | | http://inguza.com/ +46 (0)70-332 1551 | \ gpg/f.p.: 7090 A92B 18FE 7994 0C36 4FE4 18A1 B1CF 0FE5 3DD9 / --------------------------------------------------------------- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". 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