Hello, after I have received a Reject from FTP Masters on the cadaver package, because it is GPL and linked against openssl, I opened up the Bug #163583 and contacted upstream.
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?archive=no&bug=163583 Here is the answer from Joe Orton, which basically tells me that he can't relicense cadaver. He is the same oppinion as I am, openssl should be considered part of the operating system, which in that case is fine with the GPL and would solve the licensing problem of cadaver (and many other openSSL using packages). Considering the fact how many packages use the openssl libs, I dont see a problem in defining openssl a OS base package. Especially since it is priority "strandard" anyway. Please cc me and the bug. Greetings Bernd ----- Forwarded message from Joe Orton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ----- Envelope-to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Joe Orton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Bernd Eckenfels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [cadaver] Licensing issues Mail-Followup-To: Bernd Eckenfels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi, On Sun, Oct 06, 2002 at 11:41:49PM +0200, Bernd Eckenfels wrote: ... > Well, anyway. All I would ask you for is, to allow explecitely in your > README File, that you allow linking with OpenSSL, since libcrypto is not > considered to be essential part of the operating system (for some strange > reasons I do not understand :) I've seen references to this before but I don't completely understand it either: can you find a statement of why? It seems quite reasonable to me to state that OpenSSL is "part of the operating system". If you *don't* consider that OpenSSL is part of your operating system, then I guess you are obliged not to redistribute cadaver binaries which are linked against OpenSSL. cadaver includes LGPL code under FSF copyright at libneon/ne_md5.c; code which I cannot relicense, so this is not simply a case of adding an explicit disclaimer to the GPL as used in cadaver, I'm afraid. Regards, joe ----- End forwarded message ----- -- (OO) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- ( .. ) [EMAIL PROTECTED],linux.de,debian.org} http://home.pages.de/~eckes/ o--o *plush* 2048/93600EFD [EMAIL PROTECTED] +497257930613 BE5-RIPE (O____O) When cryptography is outlawed, bayl bhgynjf jvyy unir cevinpl!
