Bug#428385: [Pkg-openldap-devel] Bug#428385: GPLv3 and OpenSSL

2007-08-17 Thread Steve Langasek
On Wed, Aug 15, 2007 at 06:59:43PM +0800, James Andrewartha wrote: > >FWIW, it seems to be the FSF's position that the rewritten "system > >libraries" exception in GPLv3 does *not* apply to libraries such as > >OpenSSL, > >only to libraries that constitute "language runtimes". I don't think this

Bug#428385: [Pkg-openldap-devel] Bug#428385: GPLv3 and OpenSSL

2007-08-15 Thread Shane M. Coughlan
Hi James James Andrewartha wrote: > Shane, Anthony - Did you get a response from Brett Smith regarding > Anthony's most recent post to debian-legal? I can't see anything since > then on debian-legal. I didn't get anything related to that outside of debian-legal. Perhaps Brett emailed Anthony dir

Bug#428385: [Pkg-openldap-devel] Bug#428385: GPLv3 and OpenSSL

2007-08-15 Thread James Andrewartha
On Tue, 14 Aug 2007, Steve Langasek wrote: FWIW, it seems to be the FSF's position that the rewritten "system libraries" exception in GPLv3 does *not* apply to libraries such as OpenSSL, only to libraries that constitute "language runtimes". I don't think this follows directly from the license

Bug#428385: [Pkg-openldap-devel] Bug#428385: GPLv3 and OpenSSL

2007-08-14 Thread Steve Langasek
On Tue, Aug 14, 2007 at 12:55:41AM +0800, James Andrewartha wrote: > Now that GPLv3 is out, everything that's GPLv2 or later (which is most > packages, except nuauth, zabbix-agent and maybe others) can be distributed > as GPLv3 and linked against OpenSSL, due to the following text of GPLv3: > Th

Bug#428385: [Pkg-openldap-devel] Bug#428385: Bug#428385: GPLv3 and OpenSSL

2007-08-13 Thread Russ Allbery
James Andrewartha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Mon, 13 Aug 2007, Russ Allbery wrote: >> I think there are packages in Debian that are GPLv2 only, unless we >> want to try to track all of those down and somehow confirm that they're >> not using OpenLDAP. > Yeah, I did a apt-cache rdepends libl

Bug#428385: [Pkg-openldap-devel] Bug#428385: GPLv3 and OpenSSL

2007-08-13 Thread James Andrewartha
On Mon, 13 Aug 2007, Russ Allbery wrote: > James Andrewartha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Now that GPLv3 is out, everything that's GPLv2 or later (which is most >> packages, except nuauth, zabbix-agent and maybe others) can be >> distributed as GPLv3 and linked against OpenSSL, due to the foll

Bug#428385: [Pkg-openldap-devel] Bug#428385: GPLv3 and OpenSSL

2007-08-13 Thread Russ Allbery
James Andrewartha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Now that GPLv3 is out, everything that's GPLv2 or later (which is most > packages, except nuauth, zabbix-agent and maybe others) can be > distributed as GPLv3 and linked against OpenSSL, due to the following > text of GPLv3: I think there are packag

Bug#428385: GPLv3 and OpenSSL

2007-08-13 Thread James Andrewartha
Now that GPLv3 is out, everything that's GPLv2 or later (which is most packages, except nuauth, zabbix-agent and maybe others) can be distributed as GPLv3 and linked against OpenSSL, due to the following text of GPLv3: The "System Libraries" of an executable work include anything, other than th