Ubuntu
mail-notification package

  1. Bug #44335
  2. Comment #19

Comment 19 for bug 44335

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Peter Clifton (pcjc2) wrote : Re: IMAP+SSL/TLS are disabled

> Why? The OpenSSL license and the mail-notification license (GPL) are
> incompatible.

This may be Debian's take on the issue, but the author of mail-notification doesn't believe it to be the case. If he wanted, he could add an exception clause to his GPL license, but he doesn't believe there to be a problem in the first place.
Surely this common sense being to ship with --enable-ssl?

If debian believe it is the GPL program which must be graced by its copyright holder with an exception, surely the author's opinion counts here? (Or are we more thinking of the purity of the GPL, and the freedoms it gives software users?)

http://www.openssl.org/support/faq.html#LEGAL2 :

"On many systems including the major Linux and BSD distributions, yes (the GPL does not place restrictions on using libraries that are part of the normal operating system distribution)."

It seems that debian's stance is fairly hard-line. My real question, is should Ubuntu automatically follow the same stance?