Landon Fuller wrote:
> 
> On Aug 18, 2008, at 9:32 AM, Philipp Geschke wrote:
> 
>> Hi List,
>>
>> Can somebody confirm that Ubuntu seriously compiled Bacula in 8.04 
>> without TLS after having it enabled in 7.10?
>>
>> Or am I just being dumb?
> 
> Debian upstream disabled it:
> 
> README.Debian:
>     bacula (2.2.0-1) unstable; urgency=low
> 
>     * SSL/TLS has been disabled in this version of Bacula due to licensing
>      concerns.  See README.Debian and the thread at
>      http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2007/07/msg00144.html for more
>      details.
> 
> NEWS.Debian
>     Due to licensing concerns (see NEWS.Debian), SSL/TLS is disabled in 
> current
>     Debian builds.  This disables both encryption for the on-the-wire
>     protocol as well as encryption of the backed-up data.
> 
> Kern specifically allows linking against OpenSSL in the Bacula, and has 
> removed any GPL code that can not contain this exception:
>     As a special exception to the GPLv2, the Bacula Project gives
>     permission to link the code of its release of Bacula with the OpenSSL
>     project's "OpenSSL" library (or with modified versions of it that use
>     the same license as the "OpenSSL" library), and distribute the linked
>     executables.  You must obey the GNU General Public License in all
>     respects for all of the code used other than "OpenSSL".
> 
> I guess Debian considers the OpenSSL license and the GPL license 
> incompatible, and removed support prior to Kern's changes.
> The whole issue is a bit droll.

This is why I like packaging systems which allow you to compile from source.

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