On Sat, 2014-01-11 at 17:55 +0100, Didier 'OdyX' Raboud wrote: > Hi all, > > this "GnuTLS in Debian" thread triggered my switch of the src:cups > package from linking against GnuTLS to now link against OpenSSL. CUPS is > GPL-2 only with an OpenSSL exception.
> Now, as far as I understood the thread, there are suggestions floating > around to stop caring about this incompatibility and just consider "as a > project" that OpenSSL is a system library, but this decision hasn't been > formally taken yet. > > So as far as CUPS is concerned, I see three ways forward: > > 1) revert the switch to OpenSSL and link against GnuTLS 2. This > basically postpones the question to the moment when GnuTLS 2 is > removed from Debian. As I understood the thread, GnuTLS 2 is likely > to be removed from testing before the freeze, right? > > 2) switch to GnuTLS 3. This is not allowed because GnuTLS 3 is GPL-3 and > CUPS is GPL-2 only. What are the chances of cups re-licensing (dual-licensing) to GPL2+? This would be a step in the right direction. (in worst case use some other software package than cups as default for printing) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1389462256.3662.22.camel@PackardBell-PC
