[Globalplatform-developers] gpshell/globalplatform/OpenSSL licensing

[Dmitry Eremin-S. <dba...@gm...>]

Hello Karsten,

While working on packaging globalplatform/gpshell for Debian, I
noticed the following license
problem which makes gpshell undistributable:

gpshell is GPLv2+ licensed software which links to globalplatform library
globalplatform library itself is an LGPLv2.1+ licensed library which
links to OpenSSL library.

In the end we have a GPLv2+ software linked with OpenSSL. However
those two licenses
are incompatible: see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#OpenSSL
or http://people.gnome.org/~markmc/openssl-and-the-gpl.html

This problem can be solved in several ways:
1) Add special expcetion to the gpshell (and ideally to
globalplatform/gppcscconnector)
  to allow them to be linked with OpenSSL (see the second link for
example of exact wording).

2) Rewrite ssl-related part to use libgcrypto or any other
GPL-compatible library.

Would you like/agree to add required exceptions to the gpshell license?

Thank you for your time.

P.S. During packaging I also produced several patches decoupling
globalplatform library
from libpcsclite/winscard, small fixes for build system, etc. Are you
interested in them?

-- 
With best wishes
Dmitry