On Thu, Jun 12, 2014 at 11:49:37PM -0700, John Wright wrote: > > I'm quite unconvinced by the argument that a GPL'd script can't import > > hashlib; I think GPLv3 is quite clear that "hashlib" is a Standard > > Interface > > of the Python programming language and that making use of it is fine; the > > language is less precise for GPLv2 but I still don't think there's a > > problem > > there. There are plenty of other GPL'd things in Debian that "import > > hashlib" > > and I don't think anyone's interested in working on this. > > I actually am convinced by the debian-legal argument that the exception > doesn't apply for Debian (because Debian distributes both OpenSSL and > python-debian), but the alternative to this hacky crap is to modify our > own license to allow linking with OpenSSL. Which honestly is probably > not too hard since there were only a handful of contributors to > python_support.py.
Seconded. I think that's the way to go. If we want to go that way, here is a list of people that would need to agree to the relicensing: - Adeodato Simó <[email protected]> - Colin Watson <[email protected]> - Florian Weimer <[email protected]> - James Westby <[email protected]> - John Wright <[email protected]> - Stefano Zacchiroli <[email protected]> (I've obtained it from "git log --follow" and adding in the people mentioned in the current copyright header.) So, to begin with: John, would you agree in relicensing your contributions to debian_support.py to GPL2+ (current license) with OpenSSL exception? [1] :-) For my part, I hereby declare that I do agree with such relicensing. Cheers. [1] In addition, as a special exception, the copyright holders give permission to link the code of portions of this program with the OpenSSL library under certain conditions as described in each individual source file, and distribute linked combinations including the two. You must obey the GNU General Public License in all respects for all of the code used other than OpenSSL. If you modify file(s) with this exception, you may extend this exception to your version of the file(s), but you are not obligated to do so. If you do not wish to do so, delete this exception statement from your version. If you delete this exception statement from all source files in the program, then also delete it here. -- Stefano Zacchiroli . . . . . . . [email protected] . . . . o . . . o . o Maître de conférences . . . . . http://upsilon.cc/zack . . . o . . . o o Former Debian Project Leader . . @zack on identi.ca . . o o o . . . o . « the first rule of tautology club is the first rule of tautology club »
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