GNU bug report logs - #34717
GPL and Openssl incompatibilities in u-boot and possibly others

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Message #11 received at 34717 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Danny Milosavljevic <dannym <at> scratchpost.org>
To: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>
Cc: Vagrant Cascadian <vagrant <at> debian.org>, 34717 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#34717: GPL and Openssl incompatibilities in u-boot and
 possibly others
Date: Wed, 6 Mar 2019 19:12:52 +0100

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Hi,

> openssl <at> 1.0 has 7,029 dependent packages, so it may be hard to sort it
> out.  I wonder what would be the best way to approach it.

I can't believe I seriously suggest the following but:

A license algebra and guix commands that automate part of the lawyering,
by using the "license" field of the packages, which would now have at
least "and-license" and "or-license" operators and maybe also finer-grained
ones, and a placeholder for "it's too difficult, sort it out manually"
(maybe just detect the list we have now as "it's too difficult").

If we do it, we should add a disclaimer that it doesn't replace the need
for legal counsel entirely.

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