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> "... license-related political reasons ..." > "... license politics reasons ..." I'm not sure exactly what you mean by this? I mentioned OpenBSD replacing

> "... license-related political reasons ..." > "... license politics reasons ..." I'm not sure exactly what you mean by this? I mentioned OpenBSD replacing OpenSSL with it simply because the "official" OpenSSH is now developed against it. I'm not sure if LibreSSL is being used for the portable version yet but if/when that happens, I expect people will begin to "trust" it more, leading to more projects potentially deciding to also replace OpenSSL with LibreSSL (i.e. for valid technical reasons, not for "political" ones).

DiabloD3 11y ago
Until the announcement in August 2015, OpenSSL was dual licensed ASL1 + SSLeay License (and by dual licensed, OpenSSL means both apply, instead of choose one), the terms of which make it GPL incompatible, and also has questionable patent issues (a problem for commercial software). The announcement was that they are moving to Apache License 2.0, thus solving both issues. However, this move has not happened yet.