On 2013-12-30 10:57:32 -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: > Most upstream authors that I've spoken with don't believe that licensing > crosses the shared library ABI boundary, that the shared OpenSSL library > and the GPLv2 program that calls it remain separate works, and therefore > there is no need for OpenSSL to meet the GPLv2 requirements since the > binary as distributed is not a derivative work of both projects. Instead, > the projects are combined at runtime by the end user, who doesn't have to > meet any redistributability requirements of either license.
I suppose that this is allowed only if when compiling the GPLv2 program against OpenSSL, inline functions from OpenSSL (if there are ones) are not included in the GPLv2 program. -- Vincent Lefèvre <vinc...@vinc17.net> - Web: <http://www.vinc17.net/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <http://www.vinc17.net/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / AriC project (LIP, ENS-Lyon) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20131230212728.ga...@xvii.vinc17.org
