Re: Transition of packages from system-openssl-dev

> On Oct 14, 2015, at 08:58, Hanspeter Niederstrasser <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Dear Fink Developer,
> 
> As you may be aware, OS X 10.11 does not provide a full install of OpenSSL
> in /usr (it only has the dylib, but not the headers). Therefore, the
> package system-openssl-dev is no longer available on 10.11.  To fill this
> dependency gap, packages must transition to a Fink package that provides
> SSL functionality (like openssl100 or gnutls28). I've added a list of all
> packages that are currently using system-openssl-dev in the 10.9-libcxx
> tree to the Fink wiki:
> 
> http://wiki.finkproject.org/index.php/Fink:Policy:system-openssl#Deprecation_of_system-openssl-dev
> 
> Because the (L)GPL and OpenSSL licenses are incompatible, any package that
> is switched to use openssl100-shlibs must change its License field.  The
> current (as of fink-0.39.1) policy is to use "Restrictive".  However,
> there is code in the Fink pipeline that will allow the new license strings
> "GPL/OpenSSL" and "LGPL/OpenSSL" to better identify those packages. Once
> that code is released, (L)GPL packages linking to OpenSSL can use the
> relevant entry.
> 
> If your package is not licensed under a (L)GPL license, you do not need to
> change the License: field.  However, the package must still be updated to
> no longer use system-openssl-dev on at least 10.11.
> 
> Lastly, packages linking to a cryptography library do not need to be moved
> to the crypto directory in CVS.  Crypto is reserved for those packages
> that actually implement cryptography.
> 
> Hanspeter
> 
> -- 
> More agile than a turtle, stronger than a mouse, nobler than a lettuce.
> 
> 

I’d argue that there’s no good reason to use the system’s OpenSSL on older OS X than 10.11, either, apart from the licensing issue.  Apple stopped updating it at 10.7, I believe, so it’s pretty crufty.  

-- 
Alexander Hansen, Ph.D.
Fink User Liaison


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