Re: OpenSSL vs. LibreSSL
Alexander Hansen <[email protected]>
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> On Jun 20, 2015, at 16:03, Daniel Johnson <[email protected]> wrote: > >> <snip> >> 1+2) Ah. gotcha. As a simple base example then, is our cvs package, which uses openssl100, in violation? And if so, do we have to mark it as Restrictive? Or worse yet, pull it and stop supporting selfupdate-cvs on distributions where Xcode doesn’t have cvs ? >> >> -- >> Alexander Hansen, Ph.D. >> Fink User Liaison >> > > This is a good run-down: https://people.gnome.org/~markmc/openssl-and-the-gpl.html > > Some packages have an explicit “OpenSSL is Ok” clause added to the GPL. cvs does not, but looking at the code, it looks like libcrypto is only used as a requirement for Kerberos and Apple’s Kerberos doesn’t need that. I’ll have to look at it closer. It may be possible to drop the dep. > > Daniel > OK, Wget mentioned an explicit exemption for OpenSSL, too, which is why I went ahead and updated it for openssl100 back when I did that. I know we got a bit sloppy in the 10.6-10.7 era when we didn’t have a regularly updated bindist. -- Alexander Hansen, Ph.D. Fink User Liaison ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Fink-devel mailing list [email protected] List archive: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.os.apple.fink.devel Subscription management: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-devel