Am Wed, Nov 16, 2022 at 03:27:53PM +0100 schrieb Jan Altenberg:
> On Thu, 10 Nov 2022 22:45:57 +0100 Bastian Germann <b...@debian.org> wrote:
> > As a new maintainer has stepped up, this cannot be the reason anymore
> > to dump the package. Actually, with the next version of swupdate (one
> > of those handful) I wanted to switch from OpenSSL to SWUpdate.
>
> We're glad to hear, there's a new maintainer.
>
> > It would also be interesting for Debian's downstreams who take a
> > different approach to combining OpenSSL with GPL-2-only packages
> > (licenses are incompatible, which Debian heals with the application of
> > the GPL-built-in system library exception). Ubuntu and probably others
> > do not take the same stand and wolfSSL is really the only TLS
> > library that has a usable OpenSSL compatibility layer.
> >
> > If it helps, I can support the new maintainer
>
> OSADL is supporting Bastian with his work on SWUpdate. Quite a few of our
> members are concerned about the license incompatibility issue mentioned
> above.
OSADL can relicense swupdate to GPL-2.0+ or GPL3.0 to address this,
has that been considered/is it being worked on?
Cheers,
Moritz
