[sheepdog] possible-gpl-code-linked-with-openssl

Liu Yuan namei.unix at gmail.com
Tue Jul 10 10:09:45 CEST 2012


On 07/10/2012 03:42 PM, Dietmar Maurer wrote:
> Hi all,
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> I am currently assembling a sheepdog package for Proxmox VE. But
> “lintian” points me to a potential license problem:
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> http://lintian.debian.org/tags/possible-gpl-code-linked-with-openssl.html
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> The GPL is incompatible with some terms of the OpenSSL license, and
> therefore Debian does not allow GPL-licensed code linked with OpenSSL
> libraries.
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> Or is that hint wrong?
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'This package appears to be covered by the GNU GPL but depends on the
OpenSSL *libssl* package ...'

Sheepdog only use libcrypto and sha.h, is this compatible?

Thanks,
Yuan



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