The following message is a courtesy copy of an article
that has been posted to gmane.editors.abiword.devel as well.
[To gmane.editors.abiword.devel]
The recent abiword 2.8.6 is problematic for Debian. Paul wise has
reviewed the current release:
http://lists.debian.org/debian-mentors/2010/10/msg00401.html
The license of plugins/opendocument/common/xp/crypto/blowfish/ looks
like it is the original BSD license with obnoxious advertising clause,
which is incompatible with the GNU GPL IIRC. This is the blocker for
uploading it.
http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#OriginalBSD
In addition it is an embedded code copy of part of OpenSSL, the
security team does not like those.
This is currenly a blocker at Debian BTS:
http://bugs.debian.org/602687
Developrs:
- Can you also suggest how to best disable the problematic code
- Could you provide an 2.8.6.x update to use alternative blowfish
implementations. E.g Wei Dai's implementation from Google (found
by Tony Mancill)
- Or would you suggest better ways how to cope with the openSSL,
GPL/BSD incompatibilities?
Any help toget Abiword included in Debian stable would be appreciated,
Jari
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