--On Friday, March 24, 2017 1:49 PM -0700 James Bottomley
<james.bottom...@hansenpartnership.com> wrote:
On Fri, 2017-03-24 at 20:24 +0100, Kurt Roeckx wrote:
On Fri, Mar 24, 2017 at 12:22:14PM -0700, James Bottomley wrote:
>
> This is my understanding as well. From the GPL side, for both
> dynamic
> and static linking of openssl to GPLv2 code, the section 3 system
> exception applies.
Not everybody agrees that it applies.
debian-legal is OK with shipping other libraries which require the
system exception to link with GPLv2 code, so I don't find their
position to be entirely self consistent. Regardless, if you move to
Apache-2.0 you'll still use the system exception to link with GPLv2
code, but it will be much more acceptable.
If you mean <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GPL_linking_exception>, I would
note that not all software includes such an exception. I ran into that a
few times in the past, and had to work with the authors to adjust their
license (in one case) and move to alternatives for other cases.
--Quanah
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