This one time, at band camp, Adrian Bunk said:
> On Sat, Mar 14, 2009 at 12:40:19PM +0100, Michael Biebl wrote:
> > 
> > Tracker itself does not link against libssl. Problems seems to be, that it 
> > uses
> > libraptor, which itself uses libcurl3, that then pulls libssl.
> > 
> > I don't see, how I can do something about that within the tracker package. 
> > FWIW,
> >  the tracker debian package has no dependency on libssl.
> > 
> > Could you clarify, where you see the license violation.
> 
> OpenSSL has a not GPL compatible licence, and tracker is a GPLed program 
> that is (through intermediate libraries) linked with OpenSSL.

Another way to ask the question is: Since the package linking to libssl
is out of the control of the tracker maintainer, in what way is this
helpful?  Shouldn't the report go against that library?

Cheers,
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