NUT License prevents distribution of SSL-enabled builds
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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nut (Fedora) |
Fix Released
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Medium
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nut (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Low
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Arnaud Quette |
Bug Description
Due to NUT being licensed under GPLv2, GPLv3, and GPLv1 or later, and the code for SSL support using OpenSSL, the packages of NUT cannot be distributed with support for SSL communication between client and server. To be able to do so, a special exception to the licenses used in NUT needs to be added, to allow linking with, and distributing, SSL-enabled binaries. An alternative solution is to use a different SSL implementation which is released under a license compatible with the GNU GPL, such as GnuTLS.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: nut-client 2.6.3-1ubuntu1.1
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-25-
NonfreeKernelMo
ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu8
Architecture: i386
Date: Sun Jun 17 12:10:15 2012
SourcePackage: nut
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to precise on 2012-01-12 (156 days ago)
tags: | added: rls-q-incoming |
Changed in nut (Ubuntu): | |
importance: | Undecided → Low |
tags: |
added: rls-q-notfixing removed: rls-q-incoming |
Changed in nut (Fedora): | |
importance: | Unknown → Medium |
status: | Unknown → Fix Released |
nut should be ported to use NSS library for cryptography.
See the tracking bug for details and links on how it could be done.