Comment 6 for bug 357289

I have prepared a package (it's almost ready, lacks only a manpage), but there seems to be a licensing problem. Fsarchiver is GPL2-licensed, but uses OpenSSL which is GPL-incompatible. See http://www.gnome.org/~markmc/openssl-and-the-gpl.html for an explanation of the issue. I think this may be enough to prevent fsarchiver from being accepted into Ubuntu.

The common solution of GPL-OpenSSL incompatibility is to grant special exception for the program to link with OpenSSL (the page liked above includes a preferred statement to do that). So if Francois could do it this would be great (I'm not 100% sure that it's possible, because files src/uuid.* seem to have been taken from another source; IANAL, though, we could be better off asking someone with expertise, e.g. debian-legal).

An alternative (and IMO inferior) solution would be to disable SSL support. Yet another alternative is to use a different implementation of SSL.