Comment 2 for bug 44335

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tags 286672 wontfix help

thx!

| SSL was disabled in this application. Why? Is it just a
| configuration problem or the program's bug? Without SSL,
| mail-notification became useless to me.

it's not a bug nor a configuration problem.
i had to disable it for mail-notification to be accepted in Debian.

here's what i previously got from an ftp-master:

This software is licensed under the GPL but appears to link with
OpenSSL. This doesn't work due to license conflicts (see
debian-legal, debian-devel-announce archives for more details).
Please convince upstream to add an exception to the GPL which allows
linking with OpenSSL or point out if I am missing something.

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Jean-Yves disagrees with the interpretation done by the debian legal team:

As long as dynamic linking is involved, I do not agree with that
interpretation.

Mail Notification does not contain OpenSSL code, and therefore the
clauses #3 and #6 of the OpenSSL license do not apply to it.

As of GPL clause #6, the "Program" is Mail Notification, not Mail
Notification + the libraries it may dynamically link against.

If this is a problem for the Debian project, I suggest you ship a
package compiled using ./configure --disable-ssl. I'm not changing my
license.

Regards,
Jean-Yves Lefort

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See the following link for more information about the OpenSSL+GPL
license issue:
http://www.gnome.org/~markmc/openssl-and-the-gpl.html
<http://www.gnome.org/%7Emarkmc/openssl-and-the-gpl.html>

I'm tagging this bug wontfix and help as i can't do anything about it.

- -Pascal
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