[Fedora-legal-list] python openssl/gpl license issue?

Orcan Ogetbil oget.fedora at gmail.com
Tue May 12 20:41:09 UTC 2009


2009/5/12 Christoph Höger:
> Hi,
>
> I've just read
>
> http://blog.pierlux.com/2009/05/12/pythons-hidden-poissoned-apple-for-gpl-applications/en/
>
> and it seems to me that this applys to offlineimap (which i am
> maintaining), as that tool uses sslsock from python and is licensed
> under gpl. I contacted upstream already, but first this is a fedora
> legal issue. So what am I supposed to do?
>
> regards
>
> christoph
>
>

We have another openssl situation here. Upstream globus add their own
license (ASLv2) clause on top of an openssl header file.
At this point, I don't really know what to do. Can somebody give a hand?
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=467237

Orcan




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