On Thu, Apr 02, 2009 at 08:27:19PM +0300, Adrian Bunk wrote: > $ ldd /usr/bin/qbittorrent | grep ssl > libssl.so.0.9.8 => /usr/lib/libssl.so.0.9.8 (0x00007fd73085a000) > $ > > > /usr/share/doc/qbittorrent/copyright states that much of the code > is GPL-licenced. > > I didn't find any statement that all copyright holders of GPL'ed code > in tracker have given extra permission to link with OpenSSL. > > > See also question 28 at > http://people.debian.org/~bap/dfsg-faq
Hi Adrian, first of all thanks for your report. qbittorrent does not use directly the OpenSSL library, as you can see looking at the source code and the symbols table of the (unstripped) executable file. It is linked against two libraries using libssl (libtorrent-rasterbar and libcurl), and there are some symbols from boost::asio related to 'ssl'. And by the way, even if the majority of the C++ code in qbittorrent is released under the GPL, the debian/copyright file includes a mix of files with different licenses (LGPL, BSD, MIT), so that lintian does not complain about linking against libssl. Any suggestion? Thanks, -- Cristian Greco GPG key ID: 0x0C095825
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