Re: [PATCH] configure: Add support for OpenSSL
Lauri Kasanen <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.video.mplayer.devel |
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On Sat, 13 Feb 2016 16:50:22 +0100 Reimar Döffinger <[email protected]> wrote: > > > OpenSSL is not compatible with GPL without exceptions > > > (unless you consider it to fall under the system library exception). > > > Thus support for it does not seem desirable for me personally, at > > > the very least not without a strong warning, as at least Windows builds > > > using it will be non-redistributable, and at the very least enabling > > > by default is thus not ok. > > > Not opposing it in principle, but at least the license aspect > > > must be treated in a way that will not result in people > > > violating any licenses by accident. > > > One way would be to model it after FFmpeg's non-redistributable > > > configure option. > > > > Would --enable-openssl-nonfree be ok? > > Something _like_ that I guess should be fine, but I > am only stating my opinion. > But nonfree is not ok, as it is not nonfree, it is not > distributable, at least not in general. I asked because ffmpeg's configure option is named --enable-nonfree, and the non-redistributability is only mentioned in the description. --enable-openssl-nondistributable? - Lauri _______________________________________________ MPlayer-dev-eng mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mplayerhq.hu/mailman/listinfo/mplayer-dev-eng