Bug#541819: GPL-licensed programs link to OpenSSL

[Osamu Aoki]

Hi,

As for https://bugs.debian.org/541819 ,  can we check if it is still
problem.  In short, Jakub raises issue for uscan and bts.

As for uscan, I see the changelog:
| devscripts (2.13.5) unstable; urgency=low
| 
|   [ James McCoy ]
|   ...
| * uscan:
|   ...
|     + Require LWP::Protocol::https instead of Crypt::SSLeay to access https
|       sites.  (Closes: #624317)
|   ...
|  -- James McCoy <jamessan at debian.org>  Wed, 04 Dec 2013 22:27:45 -0500
LWP is provided by libwww-perl which is Artistic or GPL-1+.


As for bts, it uses Net::SMTP::SSL since 2008-06 and it is provided by
the libnet-smtp-ssl-perl package which is Artistic or GPL-1+.

So as far as the direct dependency, both are OK even from Jakub's POV.

Can anyone tip in to evaluate this situation?

Regards,

Osamu

PS: I am more or less with Christoph's point that the license
incompatibility for SSLeay is not an issue for perl programs at all.