Package: libopusfile0
Version: 0.2-1
Severity: wishlist
opusfile in Debian appears to have its optional HTTP/HTTPS support enabled.
This is in line with the usual Debian approach of "if in doubt, enable
all the optional features", but unfortunately makes it unsuitable for
linking into GPL-only applications/libraries, even though opusfile's own
license appears to be permissive and GPL-compatible.
The GPL-only application I'm interested in at the moment is ioquake3, for
which I don't think it's likely that we'd be able to get an OpenSSL GPL
exception from id Software or their parent company.
I don't have any suggestions for a good solution for this, I'm afraid.
Some possible bad solutions include:
* disable HTTP(S) support (I have no idea how much software actively
uses that part - ioquake3 certainly doesn't)
* compile twice, with and without HTTP(S) support
(like libcurl3 and libcurl3-gnutls)
* use GnuTLS or NSS instead - unfortunately, the easiest way to do that,
libgnutls-openssl27, is GPL, so it would cause the opposite licensing
issue (compatible with GPL things, but not GPL-incompatible things)
Regards,
S
-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
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APT policy: (500, 'proposed-updates'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'),
(500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 3.8-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages libopusfile0 depends on:
ii libc6 2.17-1
ii libogg0 1.3.0-4
ii libopus0 0.9.14+20120615-1+nmu1
ii libssl1.0.0 1.0.1e-2
libopusfile0 recommends no packages.
libopusfile0 suggests no packages.
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