What is a waiver on a GPL-licensed program?
It is generally permission to create and distribute derived works that are linked to some particular library which is under a non-GPL-compatible license. For example, libssl is such a library and some GPLed programs use libssl. In order for such a program to be included in Debian, a note accompanying the license giving some extra permission must be present. Here is one such note (taken from /usr/share/doc/wget/copyright) which allows binaries of the GPLed program wget which are linked to the non-GPL-compatible OpenSSL library to be distributed: In addition, as a special exception, the Free Software Foundation gives permission to link the code of its release of Wget 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”. If you modify this file, you may extend this exc
