license conflicts with OpenSSL

[Alexander Amelkin]

Hi Young and all!

I checked and I can say that ipmitool needs readline solely for ipmishell
support. I think that if ipmitool is confgured with --disable-ipmishell, then
there will be no license clash with readline as it won't be linked.

The requirement for ncurses looks totally obsolete. Nothing seems to change if I
just drop the requirement for tgetent(), which is what requires ncurses. The
tgetent() function is never called from anywhere in ipmitool code. I think I
will just drop the requirement for ncurses from ipmitool soon.

With best regards,
Alexander Amelkin,
Maintainer of ipmitool
https://github.com/ipmitool/ipmitool

29.11.2019 9:56, Yong Li wrote:
>
> Hi All,
>
>  
>
> Just found that some packages included in openbmc have license conflict issues
> between OpenSSL and GPL
>
>  
>
> Ipmitool package and krb5 package are both linked to openssl and other GPL libs.
>
>  
>
> Based on the discussion in
> https://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2004/05/msg00595.html, I think they are
> conflict licenses.
>
>  
>
> Just want to know if we need to do something? Such as add an additional
> license file?
>
>  
>
>  
>
> More information:
>
> meta-openembedded/meta-oe/recipes-kernel/ipmitool/ipmitool_1.8.18.bb
>
> LICENSE = "BSD-3-Clause"
>
> DEPENDS = "openssl readline ncurses"
>
>  
>
> Readline is GPLv3
>
>  
>
> meta-openembedded/meta-oe/recipes-connectivity/krb5/krb5_1.17.bb:
>
> LICENSE = "MIT"
>
> DEPENDS = "bison-native ncurses util-linux e2fsprogs e2fsprogs-native openssl"
>
>  
>
> Util-linux is GPLv2
>
>  
>
>  
>
> Thanks,
>
> Yong
>
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