> On Jun 20, 2015, at 16:03, Daniel Johnson <daniel.johnso...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> 

<snip>

>> 1+2)  Ah.  gotcha.  As a simple base example then, is our cvs package, which 
>> uses openssl100, in violation?  And if so, do we have to mark it as 
>> Restrictive?  Or worse yet, pull it and stop supporting selfupdate-cvs on 
>> distributions where Xcode doesn’t have cvs ?
>> 
>> --
>> Alexander Hansen, Ph.D.
>> Fink User Liaison
>> 
> 
> This is a good run-down: 
> https://people.gnome.org/~markmc/openssl-and-the-gpl.html
> 
> Some packages have an explicit “OpenSSL is Ok” clause added to the GPL. cvs 
> does not, but looking at the code, it looks like libcrypto is only used as a 
> requirement for Kerberos and Apple’s Kerberos doesn’t need that. I’ll have to 
> look at it closer. It may be possible to drop the dep.
> 
> Daniel
> 

OK,  Wget mentioned an explicit exemption for OpenSSL, too, which is why I went 
ahead and updated it for openssl100 back when I did that.

I know we got  a bit sloppy in the 10.6-10.7 era when we didn’t have a 
regularly updated bindist.
-- 
Alexander Hansen, Ph.D.
Fink User Liaison


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