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Dan Langille wrote:
> 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.
All of them do, no? You certainly can with Debian packages anyhow.
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