Comment 3 for bug 16320

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Debian Bug Importer (debzilla) wrote :

Message-Id: <email address hidden>
Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2005 12:42:21 +0200
From: Bartosz Fenski aka fEnIo <email address hidden>
To: Debian Bug Tracking System <email address hidden>
Subject: lftp: linked against libssl

Package: lftp
Version: 3.1.2-1
Severity: serious
Justification: unknown

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Hello.

lftp seems to be linked with OpenSSL library being at the same time GPLed.

These are not compatible licenses and you should either use some GPLed
crypto library or ask authors to add exception about OpenSSL.

More details can be found at:
http://www.gnome.org/~markmc/openssl-and-the-gpl.html

regards
fenIo

- -- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.4.27-2-686
Locale: LANG=pl_PL, LC_CTYPE=pl_PL (charmap=ISO-8859-2)

Versions of packages lftp depends on:
ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-21 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii libexpat1 1.95.8-1 XML parsing C library - runtime li
ii libgcc1 1:3.4.3-12 GCC support library
ii libncurses5 5.4-4 Shared libraries for terminal hand
ii libreadline4 4.3-15 GNU readline and history libraries
ii libssl0.9.7 0.9.7e-3 SSL shared libraries
ii netbase 4.21 Basic TCP/IP networking system

- -- no debconf information

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