New submission from Dave Love <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Darcs on this system (Ubuntu) links against the openssl library via libcurl, and it looks from configure.ac as though it can be linked explicitly when configured for git. The openssl licence is incompatible with the GPL, so the binary isn't legally distributable.
While you can link with a libcurl built using gnutls rather than openssl, it would be best to add an exception to the licence to allow linking with openssl. You could follow the exception used for GNU wget: In addition, as a special exception, the Free Software Foundation gives permission to link the code of its release of Wget with the OpenSSL project's "OpenSSL" library (or with modified versions of it that use the same license as the "OpenSSL" library), and distribute the linked executables. You must obey the GNU General Public License in all respects for all of the code used other than "OpenSSL". If you modify this file, you may extend this exception to your version of the file, but you are not obligated to do so. If you do not wish to do so, delete this exception statement from your version. ---------- messages: 670 nosy: droundy, fx, tommy status: unread title: licence needs exception for openssl ____________________________________ Darcs issue tracker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://bugs.darcs.net/issue176> ____________________________________ _______________________________________________ darcs-devel mailing list [email protected] http://www.abridgegame.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/darcs-devel
