Re: GPL, OpenSSL and Non-Free (original) (raw)

On Thu, Dec 30, 2004 at 02:21:24AM +1100, Paul Hampson wrote:

However, non-free is not part of Debian (as per the social contract) so it would be OK to put GPL'd programs that depend on OpenSSL into non-free?

The GPL special exception doesn't care about "part of" vs. "not part of".

What matters there is "accompanies".

And, a number of web sites are configured with non-free accompanying main. If we could guarantee that none of our mirrors accompanied main with non-free, then it should be ok to put that kind of software in non-free.

-- Raul

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