On Tue, Oct 13, 2020 at 01:56:40PM -0700, Felix Lechner wrote: > Hi Moritz, > > On Tue, Oct 13, 2020 at 1:33 PM Moritz Muehlenhoff <j...@debian.org> wrote: > > > > FTP masters are now treating OpenSSL as a system library, which makes > > it GPL compatible > > According to the OpenSSL website, the new license applies from 3.0.0 > onward [1], but unstable still ships 1.1.1h (with 3.0.0 in > experimental). You probably waited five years for this, but is this > removal request still a tiny bit premature? > > [1] https://www.openssl.org/source/license.html
The decision by FTP masters is totally independent of the license change for OpenSSL 3.0. In fact the same policy has been applied by Red Hat/Fedora basically since forever, see http://meetbot.debian.net/debian-ftp/2020/debian-ftp.2020-03-13-20.02.html And even with the license change in OpenSSL 3 to the Apache license 2, this would still be an "issue" for any code base which is GPL-2 only. Cheers, Moritz
