-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi again,
Thanks for the quick response! On Tue, Sep 02, 2008 at 01:57:40PM +0100, Matthew Johnson wrote: >On Tue Sep 02 14:17, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: >> Currently morla (ITP bug#431824) cannot be packaged as it is GPL. >> Should I convince upstream to dual-license, or convince Redland >> maintainer to extend with a GPL-compatible package non-postgres >> package? > >If upstream morla uses redland linked against OpenSSL then they don't >have permission to distribute the resulting binaries either, so >upstream probably want to know. I guess they are not directly hurt by this - only when Redland is linked against Postgres and Postgres is linked against openssl does this problem occur But I will inform upstream anyway, to be on the safe side. >It would probably be enough for ether morla or both morla and redland >to add an openssl exception to their GPL licence. Ah, ok. >I've downgraded the bug and retitled it. Thanks. >The normal response would be to convince upstream to licence >appropriately for linking against an Apache licence and an OpenSSL >licence. Ok. I will try convince upstream to adjust their license, then. Thanks alot for the detailed and sharp response! - Jonas - -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist og Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ [x] quote me freely [ ] ask before reusing [ ] keep private -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAki9POIACgkQn7DbMsAkQLiXzQCfeI/M4jpJ5WdM7AZLGzS224hY uFkAn03rKBQKEfyM1Fdl1DGaPbvFeQC8 =cJXB -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
