On 2011-02-20 Simon Josefsson <[email protected]> wrote: > Andreas Metzler <[email protected]> writes: [...]
> > I have the feeling that the discussion I started is an academic one > > anyway. Nettle's public key library (libhogweed) uses and links against > > libgmp, which is LGPLv3+. Therefore switching gnutls from gcrypt to > > nettle would break GPLv2-compatibility (GPLv2 without the "or any > > later version " clause). Oh dear. > It has been discussed to dual-license some libraries under > GPLv2+/LGPLv3+ to avoid this problem. I wonder if this could be a way > out here. GnuTLS 2.12 is not released (and there is not even any > release candidates), so we still have time to resolve this in a good > way. [...] Hello, Afaik there is nothing GnuTLS can do. It is using the most permissive license of the involved packages. The culprit is the combination of third party (L)GPL-v2only software (e.g. cups) with libgmp, which switched from LGPLv2+ to LGPLv3+ in 4.2.2. cu andreas -- `What a good friend you are to him, Dr. Maturin. His other friends are so grateful to you.' `I sew his ears on from time to time, sure' -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
