openssl licence & binaries of squid

Just a heads up...

Debian cannot distribute squid versions linked with openssl due to the
openssl licence having issues with GPL programs - unless those programs
include an 'exception' in their licence statement. (Other ssl enabled
GPL projects have done this). As I understand it this affects redhat
suse etc etc as well. (It also includes appliances running squid for
obvious reasons).

We have three basic options:
1) Ignore it - appliances can't ship with ssl support, distros can't
ship with ssl support, but users can rebuild their squids if they need.
2) Get squid working with GnuTLS which is meant to be an almost-dropin
replacement for openssl. They apparently have compatability headers
even.
3) Get permission from all copyright holders on squid to add an openssl
exception. (I grant my permission).

I suspect 2) is the only feasible way to go...

Rob

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