Re: Bug#395961: gabber: Links with GPL-incompatible licensed OpenSSL

2006-10-31 Thread Goedson Teixeira Paixao
Em Ter, 2006-10-31 às 11:27 -0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] escreveu: > On Tue, Oct 31, 2006 at 02:19:02PM +, MJ Ray wrote: > > Goedson Teixeira Paixao <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Version 1.2 of gnomemm (which is the one involved in this bug) is > > > licensed under the GPL. > > > Wouldn't it be

Re: Bug#395961: gabber: Links with GPL-incompatible licensed OpenSSL

2006-10-31 Thread Goedson Teixeira Paixao
Em Ter, 2006-10-31 às 15:28 +, MJ Ray escreveu: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Wouldn't it be possible to link to libgnutls instead of libssl? It seems > > that GNU TLS provides an API compatible with OpenSSL. > > The compatible API is part of GNUTLS-EXTRA, which is also GPL. See > http://jos

Re: Bug#395961: gabber: Links with GPL-incompatible licensed OpenSSL

2006-10-31 Thread MJ Ray
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Wouldn't it be possible to link to libgnutls instead of libssl? It seems > that GNU TLS provides an API compatible with OpenSSL. The compatible API is part of GNUTLS-EXTRA, which is also GPL. See http://josefsson.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/gnutls/includes/gnutls/openssl.h?

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2006-10-31 Thread cascardo
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Re: Bug#395961: gabber: Links with GPL-incompatible licensed OpenSSL

2006-10-31 Thread cascardo
On Tue, Oct 31, 2006 at 02:19:02PM +, MJ Ray wrote: > Goedson Teixeira Paixao <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Version 1.2 of gnomemm (which is the one involved in this bug) is > > licensed under the GPL. > > ACK. I jumped version somewhere. Probably its upstream is not averse > to relicensin

Re: Bug#395961: gabber: Links with GPL-incompatible licensed OpenSSL

2006-10-31 Thread MJ Ray
Goedson Teixeira Paixao <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Version 1.2 of gnomemm (which is the one involved in this bug) is > licensed under the GPL. ACK. I jumped version somewhere. Probably its upstream is not averse to relicensing or giving extra permissions, as 1.3 onwards is LGPL, but this is

Re: Bug#395961: gabber: Links with GPL-incompatible licensed OpenSSL

2006-10-31 Thread Goedson Teixeira Paixao
Em Ter, 2006-10-31 às 11:08 +, MJ Ray escreveu: > http://gtkmm.sourceforge.net/ says: 'gtkmm is free software distributed > under the GNU Library General Public License (LGPL).' The COPYING in > the stable libgnomemm*tar.bz2 seems to confirm that. > > Why is debian distributing libgnomemm und

Re: Bug#395961: gabber: Links with GPL-incompatible licensed OpenSSL

2006-10-31 Thread MJ Ray
[gnomemm maintainer added to cc] Francesco Poli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I think this exception should be copied into the debian/copyright, [...] I agree. As well as breaking policy, it means the same report may appear again. > Moreover: it seems that one of the libraries the package depend

Re: Bug#395961: gabber: Links with GPL-incompatible licensed OpenSSL

2006-10-30 Thread Francesco Poli
On Sun, 29 Oct 2006 08:19:00 -0300 Goedson Teixeira Paixao wrote: [...] > Gabber's license has an exception allowing linking to OpenSSL. See the > COPYING.exception file in its sources. I think this exception should be copied into the debian/copyright, because otherwise the latter file does not c