Bug 445560 – dev-libs/openssl: licenses/openssl has 2 licenses, one of them is a duplicate of licenses/SSLeay

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED CANTFIX

[Description Samuli Suominen (RETIRED) 2012-12-02 04:52:10 UTC]

I suggest:

1. Rename "sslwrap" to "SSLeay" since it's the original SSLeay license
2. Change net-misc/sslwrap to use the license
3. Change openssl to use the license, by dropping the duplicate from the openssl license and adjusting ebuild

Thanks

[Comment 1 Samuli Suominen (RETIRED) 2012-12-02 05:04:36 UTC]

There is now "SSLeay" license in tree. If we go about changing "openssl" to "openssl SSLeay", all of these need adjusting too:

af_alg, Net-SSLeay, google-musicmanager, makemkv, ssldump, bind, bind-tools, dropbox, vidalia, newrelic and google-talkplugin

Any opinions?

[Comment 2 Ulrich Müller 2012-12-02 08:10:37 UTC]

Good catch, but unfortunately we can't do that, because the openssl license has been approved by the FSF in this form: <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#OpenSSL>
If we split it, we would have to remove it from the FSF-APPROVED license group.

And can you add SSLeay to MISC-FREE in profiles/license_groups, please?

[Comment 3 Samuli Suominen (RETIRED) 2012-12-02 10:27:47 UTC]

(In reply to comment #2)
> Good catch, but unfortunately we can't do that, because the openssl license
> has been approved by the FSF in this form:
> <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#OpenSSL>
> If we split it, we would have to remove it from the FSF-APPROVED license
> group.
> 
> And can you add SSLeay to MISC-FREE in profiles/license_groups, please?

OK, fine by me, thanks for clarification.