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Bug #2918

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OpenSSL and GPL incompatibility

Bug #2918: OpenSSL and GPL incompatibility

Added by Didier Raboud almost 11 years ago. Updated about 5 years ago.

Status:
New
Priority:
Normal
Assignee:
-
Category:
General
Target version:
4.6
Start date:
2015-06-04
Due date:
% Done:

0%

Estimated time:
Found in version:
v4.0.4
Affected Versions:

Description

The tvheadend code links against OpenSSL without declaring an exception in its various license files.

Debian and other free software distributions have for long taken a clear stance on this issue, making it de facto impossible for tvheadend to be integrated into these distributions (and I'd be interested to push tvheadend to Debian).

There are multiple ways forward:

  • Add a short Exception text to the License.md file and to the affected source files
  • Port away from OpenSSL. Apparently, the library is mostly used for its hashing functions, that might not be as hard as it sounds.
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