[cas-dev] Licenses incompatibilities betw mod_auth_cas and OpenSSL ?

[Patrick Berry]

Debian includes openssl in utils.  I'm not familiar with the conflict
between GPL and OpenSSL, but it they include it, I'm thinking it would be
okay to link against it.
http://packages.debian.org/etch/openssl

Pat

On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 5:05 AM, Olivier Berger
<olivier.berger at it-sudparis.eu> wrote:

> Hello.
>
> I'm looking at the mod_auth_cas Apache module and thought about
> reviewing its Debian package (referred to from
> http://www.ja-sig.org/wiki/display/CASC/Linux+Distro+Packaging+for
> +mod_auth_cas).
>
> I considered the license and noticed that the program is linked against
> the OpenSSL library.
>
> Which raises a problem, as, IIRC the GNU GPL license is incompatible
> with the OpenSSL license.
>
> Thus a package would be unacceptable by Debian, I think.
>
> Do you have any insights/comments to this licensing issue ?
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Best regards,
>
> P.S.: I just subscribed to that ML, so pardon me if not having read
> previous discussions.
> --
> Olivier BERGER <olivier.berger at it-sudparis.eu>
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