[PATCH 5/7] scripts/rsatoc: relicense to allow distribution of binary linked with OpenSSL

Roland Hieber rhi at pengutronix.de
Wed Sep 16 04:55:17 EDT 2020


On Tue, Sep 15, 2020 at 10:54:15PM +0200, Uwe Kleine-König wrote:
> The GPL (both, versions 2 and 3) are incompatible with the OpenSSL license.
> According to the Free Software Foundation the copyright holders of GPL
> software have to provide an exception to allow this linkage.
> 
> This is effectively a license change and so needs confirmation by all
> copyright holders.
> 
> Cc: Sascha Hauer <s.hauer at pengutronix.de>
> Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig at pengutronix.de>

Apart from Sascha's lines, there are also some lines by Marc from commit
4ac9a459cd84ab317192 (2020-07-29, "scripts/rsatoc: fix printing of error
message, if environment variable doen't contain a path").
I've CCed him hereby.

 - Roland

> ---
>  scripts/rsatoc.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/scripts/rsatoc.c b/scripts/rsatoc.c
> index 8f2eb8fdedc9..142d71b89f9a 100644
> --- a/scripts/rsatoc.c
> +++ b/scripts/rsatoc.c
> @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
> -// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0+
> +// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0+ WITH OpenSSL-exception
>  /*
>   * rsatoc - utility to convert an RSA key to a C struct
>   *
> -- 
> 2.27.0
> 
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