On 03/11/12 17:46, Andreas Metzler wrote: > On 2012-10-24 Joerg Jaspert <jo...@debian.org> wrote: > [...] >> Maybe the rebuild without gcrypt is a solution. I don't know, I have >> no idea what other functionality then might be missing. > > Hello, > It is not possible currently for Debian to use nettle instead of > gcrypt for license reasons. Nettle links against gmp which is LGPLv3+, > but some of the gnutls-using applications in Debian have an LGPLv3 > incompatible license like GPLv2, e.g. cups. >
On 02/12/12 09:11, Andreas Metzler wrote: > We cannot switch to a GPLv2-incompatible gnutls stack on Debian > currently.[1] > > cu andreas > > [1] We will need to do this for wheezy + 1, because Debian > does not have the manpower to fork GnuTLS 2.x. But that is a different > discussion. > And how this "legal" issue will be solved in Wheezy+1? I fail to see how this will change in the future other than compiling cups with OpenSSL. I found this old discussion about dual-licensing GMP: http://gmplib.org/list-archives/gmp-devel/2011-May/001946.html But after reading it, I know the same than before... Cheers.
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