13 Feb
2006
13 Feb
'06
1:34 p.m.
Paul TBBle Hampson <Paul.Hampson@Pobox.com> wrote:
That's slightly different. The GPL's exception is for things that are normally part of the OS (ie libc) unless the GPL'd thing is also part of the OS.
i.e. Since RedHat ships with OpenSSL, linking FreeRADIUS to OpenSSL is fine.
Anyway, the short summary is you can't upload to Debian anything that has both GPL'd code and links to OpenSSL.
Debian has always had a slightly odd interpretation of the GPL. As you said:
In Debian, OpenSSL would normally accompany FreeRADIUS if FreeRADIUS depended on OpenSSL, thanks to apt-get.
Which would appear to allow uploads linking things. But maybe that's why I don't participate in Debian. Alan DeKok.