Bug#541819: GPL-licensed programs link to OpenSSL

[Christoph Berg]

Re: Osamu Aoki 2016-05-05 <20160505141508.GB26421 at goofy.local>
> 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?

I'd think if this issue wasn't important enough to get fixed in the
past 7 years, we can just close it now.

> 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.

I've never heard anything to the contrary, but IANAL.

Christoph