Re: Seeking advice on Pan license issue with optional TLS component

"Heinrich Müller" <heinrich.mueller82-gM/[email protected]> Sat, 16 Feb 2013 14:52:15 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gnome.apps.pan.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Am 16.02.2013 09:55, schrieb Dominique Dumont:
> Le mardi 12 février 2013 14:26:18, Dominique Dumont a écrit :
>> Since this is the first time I'm dealing with a trciky licensing issue,
>> I'd  like some folks from debian-legal mailing list to confirm my opinion.
> As mentioned here [1], my proposal is a bad idea. GPL license is transitive.
>
> Since any change you might do upstream to fix this situation will be too late
> or too intrusive to be accepted for next Debian release (which is currently in
> deep freeze), I have no choice but to remove SSL support from Pan in Debian
> Wheezy.
>
> I'll put back SSL support for Pan in Debian unstable once the problematic code
> is relicensed or re-written.
>
> Dominique
>
Thanks for the info, i think i'll switch over to using PolarSSL which is 
GPLv2

Cheers