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

[MORITA Kazutaka]

At Tue, 10 Jul 2012 16:09:45 +0800,
Liu Yuan wrote:
> 
> On 07/10/2012 03:42 PM, Dietmar Maurer wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > 
> >  
> > 
> > I am currently assembling a sheepdog package for Proxmox VE. But
> > “lintian” points me to a potential license problem:
> > 
> >  
> > 
> > http://lintian.debian.org/tags/possible-gpl-code-linked-with-openssl.html
> > 
> >  
> > 
> > The GPL is incompatible with some terms of the OpenSSL license, and
> > therefore Debian does not allow GPL-licensed code linked with OpenSSL
> > libraries.
> > 
> >  
> > 
> > Or is that hint wrong?
> > 
> >  
> 
> '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?

I'm not sure, but I think it is safe to use a GPL sha1 code.  I've
sent a patch to use a sha1 code from open-iscsi instead of openssl.

Thanks,

Kazutaka