Re: bug#34717: GPL and Openssl incompatibilities in u-boot and possibly others

2021-10-24 Thread Dr. Arne Babenhauserheide
Leo Famulari writes: > On Fri, Oct 22, 2021 at 02:17:33PM -0700, Vagrant Cascadian wrote: >> * Disable substitutes for relevent packages. Technically correct as >> license incompatibility is only triggered on transmission of binary, >> though maybe missing something about the spirit of the G

Re: bug#34717: GPL and Openssl incompatibilities in u-boot and possibly others

2021-10-23 Thread Leo Famulari
On Fri, Oct 22, 2021 at 02:17:33PM -0700, Vagrant Cascadian wrote: > * Disable substitutes for relevent packages. Technically correct as > license incompatibility is only triggered on transmission of binary, > though maybe missing something about the spirit of the GPL. Maybe, but did anyone wi

Re: bug#34717: GPL and Openssl incompatibilities in u-boot and possibly others

2021-10-23 Thread Maxime Devos
Vagrant Cascadian schreef op vr 22-10-2021 om 14:15 [-0700]: > [...] > Though, it is *possible* that various u-boot-BOARD in some cases > doesn't > include any openssl code at all in the resulting binaries, but builds > some tools used during the build process, that are then used to > produce > var

Re: bug#34717: GPL and Openssl incompatibilities in u-boot and possibly others

2021-10-22 Thread Vagrant Cascadian
On 2021-10-21, Vagrant Cascadian wrote: > For the last couple years guix has been applying simple workarounds in > u-boot packages to disable the features that required openssl due to > GPL/openssl license incompatibilities. > > I made an attempt at updating guix to u-boot 2021.10, which seems to >

Re: bug#34717: GPL and Openssl incompatibilities in u-boot and possibly others

2021-10-22 Thread Vagrant Cascadian
On 2021-10-22, Leo Famulari wrote: > On Thu, Oct 21, 2021 at 11:17:03PM -0700, Vagrant Cascadian wrote: >> While openssl 3.0 is licensed compatibly with GPLv3, u-boot has portions >> which are GPLv2-only, so that's not as attractive of a way forward as >> one might hope for... > > What are other di

Re: bug#34717: GPL and Openssl incompatibilities in u-boot and possibly others

2021-10-22 Thread Leo Famulari
On Thu, Oct 21, 2021 at 11:17:03PM -0700, Vagrant Cascadian wrote: > While openssl 3.0 is licensed compatibly with GPLv3, u-boot has portions > which are GPLv2-only, so that's not as attractive of a way forward as > one might hope for... What are other distros doing? Surely we can't be the only gr

Re: bug#34717: GPL and Openssl incompatibilities in u-boot and possibly others

2021-10-21 Thread Vagrant Cascadian
On 2019-03-08, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > Vagrant Cascadian skribis: >> I'm not sure where it would be appropriate to add more comments >> regarding the GPL/Openssl incompatibilities; e.g. if someone were to >> propose adding one of the u-boot targets that requires it, they might >> just go ahead an