>>>>> "Chris" == Chris Hofstaedtler <z...@debian.org> writes:
Chris> brian m. carlson (one of the git upstream copyright holders)
Chris> claims in Bug #1094969 that git cannot be distributed when
Chris> linked with OpenSSL. IIRC the Debian position is to use the
Chris> system library exception.
TL;DR: I think that an individual upstream copyright holder's
interpretation should be given less rather than more weight in
interpreting a license.
I think that Debian should adopt a project-wide interpretation of the
system library exception and apply it inconsistently. Allowing the
exception to be interpreted differently on different packages harms our
users and the free software community.
here is a longer proposal on how I would recommend approaching an issue
like this:
1) Debian maintainers have a lot of flexibility. If the Git maintainers
