Changing from gnutls26 to gnutls28 in quantal?

Steve Langasek steve.langasek at ubuntu.com
Tue Jul 31 16:31:26 UTC 2012


On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 09:38:12AM -0400, Marc Deslauriers wrote:
> On Tue, 2012-07-31 at 15:25 +0200, Sebastien Bacher wrote:
> > Le 31/07/2012 15:22, Marc Deslauriers a écrit :
> > > without checking licensing first.
> > Thanks for the reply, can you give some specifics about the changes and 
> > what to check?

> gnutls went from LGPL-2.1+ to LGPL-3+, so it can't be linked with stuff
> that's GPL-2 only. I can't remember the list of packages, but I seem to
> recall cups and gtk-vnc being part of the problematic ones.

A further problem is that gnutls is used by libldap and libcurl3-gnutls...
so this taints the library stack for any GPLv2 software that uses either of
these libraries.

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