Hi Guido, thanks for follow this up! On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 15:34, Guido Trotter <ultrot...@debian.org> wrote: > > Hi Sandro, > > We stomped into #515200 the other day, while looking for ways to use pycurl to > replace some functionality in our code. I'm willing to followup with Debian > Legal, but looking at the license of pycurl (which is LGPL or MIT/X) there > should definitely be no problem in compiling it with OpenSSL.
Great! I saw the thread is having some replies, still I didn't read them carefully (but they seem encouraging). > What is forbidden > is linking pure GPL programs with OpenSSL, but this wouldn't happen here, as > pycurl is not under the GPL. What would be less clear is the status of pure > GPL > software using pycurl+openssl (rather than pycurl+gnutls), and distributed by > Debian. But various packages can continue to depend on the gnutls version to > stay compatible, and also I'm not even sure using a python library would > qualify as "linking". yeah, that's also a point debian-legal would clarify, i think > Anyway, would you agree that if debian-legal is not > against, we can proceed providing an alternative version? The license seems to > be completely allowing this. Yep, the blocker I saw was legal not technical (even if I'll have to find a way to compile one version with gnutls and another with openssl), so once d-legal will give a "go" we can processed (oh, patches are welcome :P ). Regards, -- Sandro Tosi (aka morph, morpheus, matrixhasu) My website: http://matrixhasu.altervista.org/ Me at Debian: http://wiki.debian.org/SandroTosi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
