On Mon, May 22, 2006 at 02:58:51AM -0700, Josh Triplett wrote: > > Yes, I understood that. I added that clause at José's request to satisfy a > > Debian requirement, and if it is not really needed or no longer needed by > > Debian, I would probably prefer to remove it for exactly the reason you > > mention. At the same time, it made me realize that I don't have full > > control over certain sections of the code copyrighted by other people. > > If you link to OpenSSL or similarly-incompatible libraries, you > definitely need such an exception, on all the GPLed code in Bacula; > Debian doesn't require this, the GPL itself does.
Or rather, on all GPL code that links to OpenSSL. Some code in Bacula may not. -- John
