On Sat, 2010-03-20 at 13:33 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > Ben Hutchings <b...@decadent.org.uk> writes: > > On Sat, 2010-03-20 at 12:03 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > > >> The primary problem with using OpenSSL with OpenLDAP is NSS and PAM > >> modules, which pull the libraries into just about any GPL'd (or > >> other-licensed) package in the distribution in one way or another. > > [...] > > > Applications that use NSS/PAM, and individual NSS/PAM modules, are > > useful without the other and it is a matter of user configuration > > whether they are used together at all. The OpenLDAP modules are not > > used by default. So I don't see that copyleft licences of applications > > using NSS/PAM can possibly extend to them. > > My understanding is that that's not the standard that Debian has > historically applied, and I don't think it's particularly useful for > anyone who isn't a lawyer (such as myself) to debate it. [...]
It also isn't very useful for us to spend a lot of time working around a
legal issue that doesn't exist, so this may well be a case where it is
worth asking for legal advice through SPI.
Ben.
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Ben Hutchings
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