On 05/18/2011 02:15 PM, Elías Alejandro wrote: > Hi all, > I want your advices about a package that requires in its new > upstream release, as build dependency: libcurl4-openssl-dev > Previous releases was built with libcurl4-gnutls-dev and packaging > under GPL-3. > So, If there any licence issue if it is compiled with libcurl4-openssl-dev > instead of libcurl4-gnutls-dev and packaging under GPL-3? > I was reading [1], point 28 but I'm not sure because it isn't directly > the OpenSSL library.
If you link against code which links against OpenSSL, IANAL, but I think you also need to have the exception in your own code. Otherwise, somebody could write a small wrapper library and work around the OpenSSL licensing issues. Which we can't, sadly. -- Luke Faraone;; Debian & Ubuntu Developer; Sugar Labs, Systems lfaraone on irc.[freenode,oftc].net -- http://luke.faraone.cc PGP fprint: 5189 2A7D 16D0 49BB 046B DC77 9732 5DD8 F9FD D506
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