Bug 1019408

+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #986347 +++

gnutls 3.x depends on nettle, which depends on gmp, which is LGPLv3+. :-/

Per the matrix-of-doom, this means gnutls can no longer be used by GPLv2-only code...

repoquery turns up: climm, connman, cups, ekg2-jabber, gloox, jd, openvasscanner, suricata, xfce4-mailwatch-plugin

(Inspired by https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=704503, which doesn't show up in the above list because nothing actually links directly to glib-networking. I don't know exactly what that means licensingwise.)

Not sure what we need to do here...

--- Additional comment from Tomas Mraz on 2013-07-19 14:53:41 BST ---

I certainly cannot do anything with it in gnutls. Although it was my mistake to not consider this.

--- Additional comment from Tomas Mraz on 2013-07-19 14:59:13 BST ---

Reverting to 2.12 is basically impossible.

--- Additional comment from Dan Winship on 2013-07-19 15:59:03 BST ---

Yeah, I'm not sure what should be done, or by who, but clearly someone needs to do something... at the moment we are shipping some packages in f19 in violation of their licenses.

--- Additional comment from Tomas Mraz on 2013-07-19 16:14:20 BST ---

Also note that we've been shipping traditionally GPLv2 applications linked against openssl which was also licensing violation but we declared openssl being part of the OS platform.
I think there still are some applications that do not have the exception to link to OpenSSL although they're GPLv2(+), I did not verify this though and I am also unsure whether this applies to the current situation with gnutls.

--- Additional comment from Tomas Mraz on 2013-07-19 16:16:16 BST ---

I can't see much else that can be done than creating bug reports against the packages mentioned above and fix them to either link to something else if possible or in the corner case just drop it from the Fedora?

--- Additional comment from Tomas Mraz on 2013-07-19 16:34:30 BST ---

For example cups can be linked against openssl and now has even the license exception for that.

--- Additional comment from Tomas Mraz on 2013-07-19 16:38:02 BST ---

Comment from gnutls-devel mailing list.

This seems to be adressed on the GnuTLS download page:

1. Gmplib is under LGPLv3. Older versions of gmplib under LGPLv2 are also supported.

So I guess the easiest way would be to fork the LGPLv2 version of gmplib for gnutls use and GPLv2 programs should be in the clear.


Juho