I've done some flyby inspection of this bug and come to the following
conclusions.
* The freeradius build has a check for links with anything in a libssl*
package BUT this check only detects direct links.
* Freeradius normally ends up with an indirect link to libcrypto (from
the libssl* package) via libsnmp. On the failing mips build a buggy
libtool version was used which I suspect (I can't confirm this due to
being unable to get a copy of the version of libtool in question) meant
it ended with a direct link to libcrypto causing the build to abort.
* My understaning is (and I may be wrong) the debian interpretation of
the GPL is that any link with openssl whether direct or indirect is
unacceptable unless a specific exception is granted by the authors of
all GPL code in or linked to by the binary.
P.S. the debian/copyright file could do with a bit of clarification, it
states the code is released under GPL v2 and then pastes a license block
that says v2 or later.
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