Re: octave license is incompatible with openssl

[kei@openmailbox.org]

On 2016-08-09 14:30, Ricardo Wurmus wrote:
> Mike Miller <mtmiller@octave.org> writes:
> 
>> On Wed, Aug 10, 2016 at 00:00:59 +0800, Alex Vong wrote:
>>> So, we drop the optional dependency to avoid the problem.
>> 
>> Precisely what is the optional dependency that is dropped?
>> 
>> Octave does not directly link with OpenSSL nor use any OpenSSL
>> functions. The Octave package on Debian builds with all optional
>> dependencies enabled, and the resulting binary is linked with GnuTLS.
> 
> The “openssl” package (along with “cyrus-sasl”) was added as a new 
> input
> to our “octave” package in commit
> b7b27a8f28746a488eeee489c71053059dc5a8dc, along with the upgrade from
> 4.0.0 to 4.0.2.
> 
> I don’t know why this was done.  Maybe Kei could shed some light on
> this.
> 
> ~~ Ricardo

When I tried to build Octave 4.0.2, the build complained about missing 
SSL
and SASL libraries. Adding gnutls as a dependency (Debian users are 
advised
to use libcurl4-gnutls-dev) did not fix the issue, so I added OpenSSL to
stop the issue. It seems to me that Octave 4.0.2 (and 4.0.3, the most 
recent
version) depends on SSL for curl usage, as curl allows Octave users to 
issue
a "pkg install -forge [package_name]" command to install packages from 
the
Octave Forge repo. I didn't know that the licenses were incompatible, so 
now
we have to name (or correctly package) the Guix equivalent of 
libcurl4-gnutls-dev.