On Wed, Apr 02, 2003 at 01:59:32PM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Le mer 02/04/2003 ` 13:26, Francesco P. Lovergine a icrit : > > Dear all > > > > we have some news about #167747 which is potentially of interest > > of all packages which links OpenSSL libraries and MySQL libraries. > > > > MySQL libraries currently are plain GPL, NOT LGPL as someone thought. > > > > Stay tuned. > > Isn't this also an issue with php4-mysql ? It is under the PHP license > which is GPL-incompatible. > > What about the numerous PHP projects (many of which are even non-free) > making use of these bindings ? >
That's valid for all them. Currently all packages which mix openssl with GPL code should add some kind of exception sentence. Many of them already did. This is unfortunately a recurrent problem, and I honestly cannot see any other solution, but for requiring LGPL or put all that stuff in non-free (and I don't know if this suffices). An alternative could be using gnutls instead of openssl at all... truly a nightmare for 150 packages or more. A more definitive solution is asking for some kind of license modification to openssl team (a thing probably already done many times). -- Francesco P. Lovergine
