Re: OpenSSL

Daniel Johnson <[email protected]> Sat, 26 Sep 2015 05:27:05 -0400

Newsgroups	gmane.os.apple.fink.devel
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> On Sep 25, 2015, at 11:34 PM, Hanspeter Niederstrasser <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> On 9/25/2015 7:15 PM, Alexander Hansen wrote:
>> So, apparently, Apple deprecated the system OpenSSL as of 10.7:  http://lists.apple.com/archives/macnetworkprog/2015/Jun/msg00025.html <http://lists.apple.com/archives/macnetworkprog/2015/Jun/msg00025.html>
>> 
>> I don’t really remember having seen any compiler warnings, but whatever.
>> 
>> In any case, Xcode 7 finally breaks the ability to build against the system’s OpenSSL, so we’re going to want to migrate our packages to use Fink’s openssl100.  Unfortunately, this presents some licensing issues for GPL packages—my understanding is that that this forbids binary redistribution, unless the package specifically makes an exemption (GNU wget does, for example).
> 
> The licensing problems were brought up in June, but never resolved.
> 
> http://sourceforge.net/p/fink/mailman/message/34221422/
> 
> Does libressl have a GPL compatible license?
> 
> Hanspeter
> 

No, it’s a fork of openssl and so has the same license. Also I’ve given up on it since it has a new soname with Every Single Teeny Version.

Daniel

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