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"imagine".... OpenSSL's incompatibility with GPL is well documented. Check your google :)
by cmsj 16y ago
"imagine".... OpenSSL's incompatibility with GPL is well documented. Check your google :)
- blasdel 16y agoOnly Debian considers it to be a problem for GPL software to dynamically link with system versions of OpenSSL. They be loud and obnoxious about it, but they really are the only ones who are stirring up shit. It's only possible to be incompatible if the GPL software ships with a bundled version of OpenSSL and doesn't append an exception to the GPL. The OpenSSL project does not consider it to be a problem at all. The upstream authors that simultaneously link with OpenSSL and use a GPL license obviously don't think it's a problem.
- cmsj 16y agoBlasdel: no that's not true. Even OpenSSL themselves acknowledge there is a problem: http://www.openssl.org/support/faq.html#LEGAL2 http://www.openssl.org/support/faq.html#LEGAL2
- blasdel 16y agoDid you read it?: "(the GPL does not place restrictions on using libraries that are part of the normal operating system distribution)" Even Debian is not jackass enough to patch SSH to link with NSS or GnuTLS instead.
- cmsj 16y agoI did read it and I see that they are aware that their advertising clause causes problems for distribution and I see them recommending against making GPL software that links to OpenSSL. gem is GPL and links to OpenSSL.