In the thread "ITP: libressl", the OpenSSL linking exception was discussed. This is of great interest to people who would think that LibreSSL may be a long-term viable fork of OpenSSL, because many statements of the OpenSSL exception do not explicitly to permit linking with modified and/or renamed versions of OpenSSL. It would be better if their wording did explicitly permit this.
However, as Joey Hess noted, in practice Debian already treats any OpenSSL linking exception as allowing linking of Debian's modified version of OpenSSL. [summarizing https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2014/07/msg00564.html] In any case, your upstream might consider this exception, which "can be found in at least wget and GnuPG": | In addition, as a special exception, <copyright holder> gives permission to | link the code of <project> with the OpenSSL project's "OpenSSL" library (or | with modified versions of it that use the same license as the "OpenSSL" | library), and distribute the linked executables. You must obey the GNU General | Public License in all respects for all of the code used other than "OpenSSL". | If you modify this file, you may extend this exception to your version of the | file, but you are not obligated to do so. If you do not wish to do so, delete | this exception statement from your version. [from http://mid.gmane.org/20140722013130.GA14673%40gauss.olasd.eu] Jeff -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
