[Bug 188400] Review Request: ssmtp

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Summary: Review Request: ssmtp


https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=188400





------- Additional Comments From pertusus at free.fr  2006-10-30 10:56 EST -------
(In reply to comment #31)

> Patch number 8 switches from using openssl to gnutls, the reason behind the
> change being pointed in http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=374327.
> Quoting from there: 
> "as written in debian/copyright ssmtp is now GPL. Your package is linked
> against OpenSSL, which is not licensed under the GPL, this is a license
> violation. 

I'm a bit surprised that debian folks say such strange things. The GPL
cause any derivated work to be licenced under the GPL, but linking 
dynamically against a library doesn't make that library a derivative
work. If this was true, GPL programs couldn't be linked against 
proprietary libc on unix or windows.

In fact the opposite could be argued, linking against a library
forces to comply with the library licence, that's what leads to the
LGPL for libraries versus GPL, whenever one want to allow the library 
to be linked against GPL incompatible code.

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