On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 06:38:54PM -0400, Luke Faraone wrote: > 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.
It seems that the raptor[0] package changed from libcurl4-openssl-dev to libcurl4-gnutls-dev because of this same reason[1]. >From the debian/changelog[2]: "* Rebuild against libcurl4-gnutls-dev rather than libcurl4-openssl-dev (Closes: #463344)" [0] http://packages.debian.org/sid/source/raptor [1] http://bugs.debian.org/463344 [2] http://packages.debian.org/changelogs/pool/main/r/raptor/raptor_1.4.21-5/changelog -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110519191233.GB3443@numenor.numenor
