Bug#750870: Proposed OpenSSL linking exception

2014-07-27 Thread Michael van der Kolff
Background: #750870 is about a licencing issue, namely that Remmina links against libssh which links against OpenSSL, and Remmina is GPL without any linking exception. For package Remmina, upstream proposes to add the following text authorising the linking of OpenSSL with Remmina (see

Bug#750870: Proposed OpenSSL linking exception

2014-07-27 Thread Jeff Epler
In the thread ITP: libressl, the OpenSSL linking exception was discussed. This is of great interest to people who would think that LibreSSL may be a long-term viable fork of OpenSSL, because many statements of the OpenSSL exception do not explicitly to permit linking with modified and/or renamed