IRCd-Hybrid with OpenSSL support in Debian: licences conflict resolution

[Joan Touzet]

The last time we had this discussion, and we checked into the code,
Lee's option turned out to be the least amount of work.  Given that
I've moved on to other projects, however, I cannot volunteer my time
to work on this bit of code.  And it's still a non-trivial
modification to the codebase, requiring dedication on someone's part
over the course of what's likely to be many weeks of development,
regression testing and beta releases.

Perhaps the best stop-gap solution is to set up a deb/deb-src like
repository, with sample apt.conf lines, that contains ircd-hybrid
binaries and source.  It would mean (temporarily?) removing
ircd-hybrid from the official debian source locations, but a record
over at http://www.apt-get.org/ and on the project's home page would
point people in the right direction.

It doesn't solve the problem, but it sidesteps it neatly, as many
other packagers (Java, anyone) have done.  And it'd take all of 30
minutes to get done.

-Wohali / Joan

On 9/3/06, Lee H <lee at leeh.co.uk> wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 03, 2006 at 05:14:42PM +0200, Aurélien GÉRÔME wrote:
> >  1. Your licence might add an exception to the GPL which allows
> >     linking with OpenSSL.
> >
> >  2. IRCd-Hybrid might be rewritten to use GNUTLS instead of OpenSSL.
>
> There is a third option that may be possible -- the SSL code could become
> seperate.
>
> You could have a helper that takes care of all the SSL side of things, like
> servlink, meaning ircd itself never touches SSL.
>
> You could then go for the GPL exception in the helper code, or distribution
> like Debian could even theoretically distribute it seperately.
>
>
> Whether that is more/less work than GNUTLS, is another matter..
>
> --
> -                 Lee H // anfl
> -        I code, therefore I break things.
>
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