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Subject: Re: octave license is incompatible with openssl
Date: Mon, 8 Aug 2016 16:00:18 -0400
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To: Alex Vong <alexvong1995@gmail.com>
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On Sat, Aug 06, 2016 at 09:52:39AM +0800, Alex Vong wrote:
> Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net> writes:
> 
> > Alex Vong <alexvong1995@gmail.com> writes:
> >
> >> I notice 'octave 4.0.2' has 'openssl@1.0.2h' as one of its inputs. As
> >> far as I know, gplv3 is incompatible with openssl license
> >> (https://people.gnome.org/~markmc/openssl-and-the-gpl.html).
> >
> > Looks like you’re right.  Other projects add a special openSSL linking
> > exception, but Octave does not seem to account for this.
> >
> >> How should we fix this?
> >
> > It seems that the use of openssl in Octave is optional, so we could
> > probably just remove it.  From a cursory look it appears that it is used
> > for not much more than the MD5 algorithm.  Would you like to submit a
> > patch that removes openssl from the inputs?
> >
> Here it is. It takes a long time to track down that curl is pulling the
> openssl depedency. I also upgrade octave to 4.0.3 and change to use
> 'tar.xz'.
> 
> > It would be good to ask the Octave project if it would be possible to
> > replace OpenSSL with, say, GnuTLS.
> >
> I agree, should we CC/forward this discussion to octave-devel list?

Yes, I think we should work with them to resolve this issue.