License GPL-2 conflicts with OpenSSLException

[Jason Liu]

On Fri, Apr 16, 2021 at 9:21 PM Joshua Root <jmr at macports.org> wrote:

> OpenSSLException conflicts with everything except the OpenSSL license.
>

Wait, what? If OpenSSLException conflicts with everything except the
OpenSSL license, doesn't that make it tautologically equivalent to the
OpenSSL license itself? (i.e. the sentence is basically the same as saying
"if and only if")

I thought the entire point of OpenSSLException was to specify that the
authors have made the exception (in writing) that allows their GPL-licensed
project to link against OpenSSL? Wouldn't that imply that OpenSSLException
has to be compatible with something (i.e. the GPL) in addition to the
OpenSSL license?

-- 
Jason Liu


On Fri, Apr 16, 2021 at 9:21 PM Joshua Root <jmr at macports.org> wrote:

> On 2021-4-17 11:16 , Ryan Schmidt wrote:
> >
> https://build.macports.org/builders/ports-10.15_x86_64-builder/builds/55652/steps/gather-archives/logs/stdio
> >
> >> "hydrogen" is not distributable because its license "GPL-2" conflicts
> with license "OpenSSLException" of dependency "qt5-qtbase"
> >
> > Does this make sense or is there an error in the script? Why would GPL-2
> or anything conflict with OpenSSLException? It's just an exception. It
> lifts some restrictions imposed by the GPL. It shouldn't be imposing
> additional restrictions itself, should it?
>
> Implementation detail. OpenSSLException conflicts with everything except
> the OpenSSL license. If you see that, it means that all the other
> license options also conflicted (in this case, GPL-3 or LGPL-3).
>
> - Josh
>
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