Re: Bacula and OpenSSL (original) (raw)

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RE: The FSF position regarding OpenSSL as a system library in Debian.

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We do not believe that OpenSSL qualifies as a System Library in Debian. The System Library definition is meant to be read narrowly, including only code that accompanies genuinely fundamental components of the system. I don't see anything to suggest that that's the case for OpenSSL in Debian: the package only has important priority (as opposed to glibc's required), there are only about 350 packages depending on it (as opposed to glibc's 8500), and it isn't installed on a base system. To put it plainly, if OpenSSL actually were a System Library, I would expect it to look more like one.

-- Brett Smith Licensing Compliance Engineer, Free Software Foundation

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Steve, Kern and Anthony all made comments regarding the statement above. I just wanted to let you know that I've forwarded these comments to Brett Smith. :)

Best regards

Shane

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