Re: Urgently need GPL compatible libsnmp5-dev replacement :-(

2005-05-13 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
* Daniel Jacobowitz | On Wed, May 11, 2005 at 03:50:29PM +0200, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: | > * Andreas Barth | > | > | Agreed. We should IMHO make such a requirement to be part of etchs | > | release policy. | > | > How are you going to solve the problem ia32-libs solves if not in this | > way?

Re: Urgently need GPL compatible libsnmp5-dev replacement :-(

2005-05-11 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
On Wed, May 11, 2005 at 03:50:29PM +0200, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > * Andreas Barth > > | Agreed. We should IMHO make such a requirement to be part of etchs > | release policy. > > How are you going to solve the problem ia32-libs solves if not in this > way? > > (Unless we want to make etch full

Re: Urgently need GPL compatible libsnmp5-dev replacement :-(

2005-05-11 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
* Andreas Barth | Agreed. We should IMHO make such a requirement to be part of etchs | release policy. How are you going to solve the problem ia32-libs solves if not in this way? (Unless we want to make etch fully multiarchified, which I don't think we will.) -- Tollef Fog Heen

Re: Urgently need GPL compatible libsnmp5-dev replacement :-(

2005-05-09 Thread Andreas Barth
* Stephen Quinney ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [050509 17:20]: > On Mon, May 09, 2005 at 04:45:44PM +0200, Martin Schulze wrote: > > Christian Hammers wrote: > > > I could package the whole libsnmp source code into the Quagga file, and > > > simply compile it with --without-openssl and then link it statical

Re: Urgently need GPL compatible libsnmp5-dev replacement :-(

2005-05-09 Thread Stephen Quinney
On Mon, May 09, 2005 at 04:45:44PM +0200, Martin Schulze wrote: > Christian Hammers wrote: > > I could package the whole libsnmp source code into the Quagga file, and > > simply compile it with --without-openssl and then link it statically > > or something similar brute force and ugly. > > FWIW:

Re: Urgently need GPL compatible libsnmp5-dev replacement :-(

2005-05-09 Thread Martin Schulze
Christian Hammers wrote: > I could package the whole libsnmp source code into the Quagga file, and > simply compile it with --without-openssl and then link it statically > or something similar brute force and ugly. FWIW: Please don't. This would mean creating a security-support nightmare. Regar

Re: Urgently need GPL compatible libsnmp5-dev replacement :-(

2005-05-05 Thread Humberto Massa
Andrew Suffield wrote: [This part of the thread belongs on -legal] So, there it goes. On Wed, May 04, 2005 at 11:51:51PM -0500, Peter Samuelson wrote: [Paul TBBle Hampson] This of course assumes the phrase "derived work" is legalese for "code dependancy" or something. I'm sure the GPL ac

Re: Urgently need GPL compatible libsnmp5-dev replacement :-(

2005-05-04 Thread Andrew Suffield
[This part of the thread belongs on -legal] On Wed, May 04, 2005 at 11:51:51PM -0500, Peter Samuelson wrote: > > [Paul TBBle Hampson] > > This of course assumes the phrase "derived work" is legalese for > > "code dependancy" or something. I'm sure the GPL actually defines > > what _they_ mean by

Re: Urgently need GPL compatible libsnmp5-dev replacement :-(

2005-05-04 Thread Peter Samuelson
[Paul TBBle Hampson] > This of course assumes the phrase "derived work" is legalese for > "code dependancy" or something. I'm sure the GPL actually defines > what _they_ mean by it... One false assumption and one false premise. "Derived work" is legalese for "this work is based, at least in part

Re: Urgently need GPL compatible libsnmp5-dev replacement :-(

2005-05-04 Thread Andrea Mennucc
hi I happen to mantain 'snmpkit' ; you may give it a look a. Christian Hammers wrote: > Hello > > [regarding #306840 and with more info in #243870] > > One of my packages, Quagga, is licenced under the GPL but is supposed to > get linked against NetSNMP. That now is problematic, as NetSNMP de

Re: Urgently need GPL compatible libsnmp5-dev replacement :-(

2005-05-04 Thread David Mandelberg
On Tue, 2005-05-03 at 20:15 -0400, David Mandelberg wrote: > On Tue, 2005-05-03 at 19:40 -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > > GNU version of OpenSSL (I don't recall how > > it is called). > > GnuTLS I think. Stupid mail misconfiguration, I sent this before I got Christian Hammer's reply

Re: Urgently need GPL compatible libsnmp5-dev replacement :-(

2005-05-04 Thread Paul TBBle Hampson
On Wed, May 04, 2005 at 02:08:01AM -0400, Theodore Ts'o wrote: > On Tue, May 03, 2005 at 07:06:36PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > > > > The license of the GNUTLS OpenSSL shim is GPL, causing possible license > > problems in the other direction with GPL-incompatible apps. It's also not a > > very

Re: Urgently need GPL compatible libsnmp5-dev replacement :-(

2005-05-03 Thread Theodore Ts'o
On Tue, May 03, 2005 at 07:06:36PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > > The license of the GNUTLS OpenSSL shim is GPL, causing possible license > problems in the other direction with GPL-incompatible apps. It's also not a > very complete compatibility layer. > So dynamically link against _an_ SSL l

Re: Urgently need GPL compatible libsnmp5-dev replacement :-(

2005-05-03 Thread Steve Langasek
On Tue, May 03, 2005 at 07:40:24PM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Wed, 04 May 2005, Christian Hammers wrote: > > One of my packages, Quagga, is licenced under the GPL but is supposed to > > get linked against NetSNMP. That now is problematic, as NetSNMP depends > > on OpenSSL (for S

Re: Urgently need GPL compatible libsnmp5-dev replacement :-(

2005-05-03 Thread David Mandelberg
On Tue, 2005-05-03 at 19:40 -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > GNU version of OpenSSL (I don't recall how > it is called). GnuTLS I think. -- The attachment "signature.asc" (if it exists) is a digital signature. Unless you know what that is, you can completely ignore it. It is mostly ha

Re: Urgently need GPL compatible libsnmp5-dev replacement :-(

2005-05-03 Thread Marco d'Itri
On May 04, Christian Hammers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I could package the whole libsnmp source code into the Quagga file, and > simply compile it with --without-openssl and then link it statically > or something similar brute force and ugly. Or even better just disable SNMP support, which is

Re: Urgently need GPL compatible libsnmp5-dev replacement :-(

2005-05-03 Thread Christian Hammers
Hello On 2005-05-03 Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Wed, 04 May 2005, Christian Hammers wrote: > > One of my packages, Quagga, is licenced under the GPL but is supposed to > > get linked against NetSNMP. That now is problematic, as NetSNMP depends > > on OpenSSL (for SNMPv3 crypto support?

Re: Urgently need GPL compatible libsnmp5-dev replacement :-(

2005-05-03 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Wed, 04 May 2005, Christian Hammers wrote: > One of my packages, Quagga, is licenced under the GPL but is supposed to > get linked against NetSNMP. That now is problematic, as NetSNMP depends > on OpenSSL (for SNMPv3 crypto support?) which is not GPL compatible. A simple extension to Quagga's (