On Thu, Mar 30, 2017 at 02:49:04AM +0200, Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez wrote: > However, I still don't understand why we don't just declare OpenSSL a > system library; or at least define a clear policy for when a package is > considered part of the base system (so the GPL system exception applies > to it). > > RedHat did this (see me previous (by date) mail on this thread), and > they didn't had any problem in this regard (AFAIK).
The "Red Hat did this" part is not accurate. I addressed this in a talk I gave in 2014 - see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZ_AKFkDWFc&feature=youtu.be&t=1672 (through about 29:40) Richard