From: Alex Vong <alexvong1995@gmail.com>
To: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: openssl is now a dependency of guix: possible license conflict?
Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2017 08:31:10 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87tw17ox0x.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
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Hello guix,
Recently, guix changes to use guile-git for 'guix pull', which is a
libgit2 binding for guile, while libgit2 itself uses openssl to talk
over https.
Now the potential problem is that guix is licensed in gpl3+ while
openssl is licensed in openssl. It is well-known the two licenses have
incompatibility disallowing one from distributing the result of linking
a gpl program with openssl[0].
First, We have to figure out if we are linking guix with openssl. Well,
libgit2 is dynamically linked to openssl while guile-git uses
'dynamic-link' to load libgit2. So these libraries are linked
together. The part that I am not sure is that whether guix is linked
with guile-git.
What do you think?
Cheers,
Alex
[0]: https://people.gnome.org/~markmc/openssl-and-the-gpl.html
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next reply other threads:[~2017-08-17 0:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-08-17 0:31 Alex Vong [this message]
2017-08-17 2:29 ` openssl is now a dependency of guix: possible license conflict? Mark H Weaver
2017-08-17 7:36 ` Mark H Weaver
2017-08-18 14:44 ` Alex Vong
2017-08-18 18:06 ` Leo Famulari
2017-08-18 21:21 ` Mark H Weaver
2017-08-19 12:51 ` Adonay Felipe Nogueira
2017-08-22 8:32 ` Ludovic Courtès
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