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GPL and Openssl incompatibilities in u-boot and possibly others

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Message #77 received at 34717 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Vagrant Cascadian <vagrant <at> debian.org>
To: Z572 <z572 <at> z572.online>, 34717 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#34717: GPL and Openssl incompatibilities in u-boot and
 possibly others.
Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2025 08:45:01 -0700

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On 2025-04-15, Z572 wrote:
> Hi, If I'm not mistaken, new openssl3 is asl2.0, u-boot is gpl2+, I
> think the licenses of these two should not conflict now, maybe we can
> add openssl3 to u-boot dependencies now.

This appears to be an oversight in the packaging of u-boot in Guix
license field, as significant portions of u-boot are GPLv2-only which is
not compatible with asl2.0...

In Debian, numerous licenses other than GPL-2.0+ are documented:

  https://tracker.debian.org/media/packages/u/u-boot/copyright-2025.01-3

live well,
  vagrant

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