Re: System libraries and the GPLv2

2017-03-25 Thread Walter Landry
Florian Weimer wrote: >> #5 Declare GMP to be a system library. >> > (snip) > >> #5 was how Fedora looked at the OpenSSL library issue. Since Debian >> has another viewpoint on OpenSSL I somehow doubt we would use it for >> GMP. > > I would like to suggest to treat more libraries as eligible for

System libraries and the GPLv2 (was: Re: GnuTLS in Debian)

2017-03-25 Thread Florian Weimer
* Andreas Metzler: > Problems: > - > GnuTLS 2.12.x is dated. It is upstream's old-old-old stable release > (followed by 3.[012].x). The latest bugfix release happened in > February 2012, later security fixes have not been solved by releases but > by patches in GIT. GnuTLS 2.12.x does not w

Re: Checking the ARL's scheme for releasing software

2017-03-25 Thread Francesco Poli
On Mon, 20 Mar 2017 14:15:14 + Karan, Cem F CIV USARMY RDECOM ARL (US) wrote: > Good morning, my name is Cem Karan. Hello! [...] > I have been in discussion with the Open Source Initiative (OSI, > https://opensource.org/) on their license-discuss mailing list to develop a > method that ARL