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SubjectRe: [PATCH] modsign: Fix GPL/OpenSSL licence incompatibility
On Tue 2015-09-15 16:03:36, David Howells wrote:
> From: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
>
> The GPL does not permit us to link against the OpenSSL library. Use
> LGPL for sign-file and extract-file instead.

Actually GPL does permit you to link to "system libraries", and it looks like
OpenSSL is pretty much system library these days.

(But no problem with LGPL).


>
> Reported-by: Julian Andres Klode <jak@jak-linux.org>
> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
> Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
> Reviewed-by: Julian Andres Klode <jak@jak-linux.org>
> ---
>
> scripts/extract-cert.c | 10 +++++-----
> scripts/sign-file.c | 13 ++++++++-----
> 2 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/scripts/extract-cert.c b/scripts/extract-cert.c
> index 10d23ca9f617..6ce5945a0b89 100644
> --- a/scripts/extract-cert.c
> +++ b/scripts/extract-cert.c
> @@ -1,15 +1,15 @@
> /* Extract X.509 certificate in DER form from PKCS#11 or PEM.
> *
> - * Copyright © 2014 Red Hat, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
> - * Copyright © 2015 Intel Corporation.
> + * Copyright © 2014-2015 Red Hat, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
> + * Copyright © 2015 Intel Corporation.
> *
> * Authors: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
> * David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
> *
> * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
> - * modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public Licence
> - * as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version
> - * 2 of the Licence, or (at your option) any later version.
> + * modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License
> + * as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2.1
> + * of the licence, or (at your option) any later version.
> */
> #define _GNU_SOURCE
> #include <stdio.h>
> diff --git a/scripts/sign-file.c b/scripts/sign-file.c
> index 058bba3103e2..c3899ca4811c 100755
> --- a/scripts/sign-file.c
> +++ b/scripts/sign-file.c
> @@ -1,12 +1,15 @@
> /* Sign a module file using the given key.
> *
> - * Copyright (C) 2014 Red Hat, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
> - * Written by David Howells (dhowells@redhat.com)
> + * Copyright © 2014-2015 Red Hat, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
> + * Copyright © 2015 Intel Corporation.
> + *
> + * Authors: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
> + * David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
> *
> * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
> - * modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public Licence
> - * as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version
> - * 2 of the Licence, or (at your option) any later version.
> + * modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License
> + * as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2.1
> + * of the licence, or (at your option) any later version.
> */
> #define _GNU_SOURCE
> #include <stdio.h>
>
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