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| From: | Michael Stone |
| Subject: | Re: coreutils & openssl |
| Date: | Wed, 1 Feb 2017 07:46:21 -0500 |
| User-agent: | Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) |
On Tue, Jan 31, 2017 at 07:40:06PM -0800, Pádraig Brady wrote:
We left the enablement of that option off by default, to let distributors explicitly decide if it was appropriate to invoke the GPL "special exception" and treat openssl as a system library shipped with the OS, thus allowing coreutils to use it. Fedora allows this for example, while debian does not, as of 2002 at least¹
Well, as a FSF project this would be an excellent opportunity for FSF to issue an official statement that debian is misinterpreting this, at least for things for which FSF is the copyright holder...
Mike Stone
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