Re: GPL and OpenSSL

2012-06-05 Thread Ben Finney
José Luis Segura Lucas writes: > I wrote this morning to upstream people and they agree and are very > happy to switch from OpenSSL to GnuTLS. > > They tell me the following: > > «That is good. I will switch to GnuTLS. > > Please pass my thanks to the debian people for spotting it.» An excellent

Re: GPL and OpenSSL

2012-06-05 Thread José Luis Segura Lucas
Dear mentors :-) I wrote this morning to upstream people and they agree and are very happy to switch from OpenSSL to GnuTLS. They tell me the following: «That is good. I will switch to GnuTLS. Please pass my thanks to the debian people for spotting it.» Best regards El 05/06/12 07:49, José L

Re: GPL and OpenSSL

2012-06-04 Thread José Luis Segura Lucas
El 04/06/12 23:38, Arno Töll escribió: > I find it quite strange that the upstream authors are aware of this > problem but do not care to violate their own licensing terms by the way > (this makes alternative b) quite appealing to them I guess). > Well, I think they know that *after* developing it

Re: GPL and OpenSSL

2012-06-04 Thread Arno Töll
On 04.06.2012 23:41, Arno Töll wrote: > Software License which is GPL compatible. There is no need to do such ^ that should read: OpenSSL compatible -- with kind regards, Arno Töll IRC: daemonkeeper on Freenode/OFTC GnuPG Key-ID: 0x9D80F36D signature.as

Re: GPL and OpenSSL

2012-06-04 Thread Arno Töll
Hi, On 04.06.2012 23:27, Игорь Пашев wrote: > It could be replaced via Debain patch. > AFAIK something similar is done for Apache (or APR?) Both, Apache and APR is licensed under the terms of the Apache 2.0 Software License which is GPL compatible. There is no need to do such things for ASF softw

Re: GPL and OpenSSL

2012-06-04 Thread Arno Töll
Hi, On 04.06.2012 23:07, José Luis Segura Lucas wrote: > Is this md5 function compatible with GPL license? If it isn't, are there > any other implementation compatible with GPL2? No it is not. The OpenSSL crypto routines are under the same terms as the whole OpenSSL project. The OpenSSL license i

Re: GPL and OpenSSL

2012-06-04 Thread Игорь Пашев
It could be replaced via Debain patch. AFAIK something similar is done for Apache (or APR?) 2012/6/5 José Luis Segura Lucas : > I'm starting the packaging work for grive [1]. > > When I finished the first aproach to the Debian package, I run lintian to > see the possible errors, and between a big

GPL and OpenSSL

2012-06-04 Thread José Luis Segura Lucas
I'm starting the packaging work for grive [1]. When I finished the first aproach to the Debian package, I run lintian to see the possible errors, and between a big set of warning, I found the next error: possible-/gpl/-code-linked-with-openssl I speak with upstream authors and they tell me that