On 2013-01-23 Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez <clo...@igalia.com> wrote: > On 03/11/12 17:46, Andreas Metzler wrote: [...] > > We cannot switch to a GPLv2-incompatible gnutls stack on Debian > > currently.[1]
> > cu andreas > > [1] We will need to do this for wheezy + 1, because Debian > > does not have the manpower to fork GnuTLS 2.x. But that is a different > > discussion. > And how this "legal" issue will be solved in Wheezy+1? I fail to see how > this will change in the future other than compiling cups with OpenSSL. Hello, I guess basically the only option is to drop SSL support from the respective incompatible packages or get them relicensed or write some code to use a different SSL toolkit. > I found this old discussion about dual-licensing GMP: > http://gmplib.org/list-archives/gmp-devel/2011-May/001946.html > But after reading it, I know the same than before... I have tried multiple times in vain to get a response from GMP maintainers with respect to a license change. Either my efforts were too badly worded or upstream simply does not want to even discuss switching to a GPLv2 compatible licensing. :-( cu andreas -- `What a good friend you are to him, Dr. Maturin. His other friends are so grateful to you.' `I sew his ears on from time to time, sure' -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
