Package: sip-tester
Version: 3.1.r590-1
Severity: serious

Among the many lintian complaints for sip-tester I saw this:

E: sip-tester: possible-gpl-code-linked-with-openssl
http://lintian.debian.org/tags/possible-gpl-code-linked-with-openssl.html

I've confirmed that the upstream code does not contain any exception to
the GPL to allow it to be linked against OpenSSL. In addition there is
almost zero copyright information in the code so it isn't clear who can
add such an exception.

For more info, see these links from the ftp-master's reject FAQ:

http://ftp-master.debian.org/REJECT-FAQ.html
http://www.openssl.org/support/faq.html#LEGAL2
http://www.gnome.org/~markmc/openssl-and-the-gpl.html

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (700, 'testing'), (600, 'unstable'), (550, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-3-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_AU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages sip-tester depends on:
ii  libc6                     2.10.2-6       Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii  libgcc1                   1:4.5.0-2      GCC support library
ii  libncurses5               5.7+20100313-2 shared libraries for terminal hand
ii  libpcap0.8                1.1.1-2        system interface for user-level pa
ii  libssl0.9.8               0.9.8n-1       SSL shared libraries
ii  libstdc++6                4.4.2-9        The GNU Standard C++ Library v3

-- 
bye,
pabs

http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise

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