From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ricardo Wurmus Subject: Re: octave license is incompatible with openssl Date: Fri, 05 Aug 2016 08:50:35 +0200 Message-ID: <87wpjvhfpg.fsf@elephly.net> References: <87h9b0ij9x.fsf@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:42654) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bVYxz-00031N-KN for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 05 Aug 2016 02:50:48 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bVYxv-0002uF-Ey for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 05 Aug 2016 02:50:46 -0400 Received: from sender163-mail.zoho.com ([74.201.84.163]:24865) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bVYxv-0002u8-6h for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 05 Aug 2016 02:50:43 -0400 In-reply-to: <87h9b0ij9x.fsf@gmail.com> List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: Alex Vong Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org Alex Vong 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? It would be good to ask the Octave project if it would be possible to replace OpenSSL with, say, GnuTLS. ~~ Ricardo