Re: git-fetch in 1.5.4 fails versus 1.5.3.8

On Thu, 7 Feb 2008, Frank Lichtenheld wrote:

Easy to say for someone who only distributes source code... (AFAIK
anyway)

Sure. But I'd like to point out that there are tons of distributiors of 
Linux _and_ other operating systems - with real lawyers involved - that 
distribute things compiled with OpenSSL, and nobody sane actually thinks 
it is a problem. The fact that the OpenSSL license isn't compatible with 
GPL is a total non-issue: people compile GPL'd programs against totally 
proprietary libraries or other non-GPL-compatible things.

Anyway, since Debian will not change its opinion about this, my answer
was in the context of the question obviously useful. Whether it was
generally correct is probably off-topic here.

Umm. You claimed that the result would not be "distributable". I just 
both corrected that total misunderstanding (on part of the Debian crowd) 
_and_ said that even crazy Debian people can work around it.

So please don't say that things are not "distributable" when they clearly 
are. 

			Linus