Anders F Björklund wrote: > Jeremy Lavergne wrote: > >> Go with the MacPorts version of openssl: MacPorts is meant to be >> entirely self-contained. >> >> On Mar 31, 2009, at 9:58 AM, Anand Buddhdev wrote: >> >>> My question is: is it okay for me to specify the port to use the >>> built-in openssl, or is it better to make the port depend on the >>> openssl from ports? > > > Using the MacPorts version of OpenSSL has a licensing problem with > GPL ports, though... When distributing package binaries, that is. > > Like http://www.finkproject.org/doc/packaging/policy.php?phpLang=en#openssl > http://www.openssl.org/support/faq.html#LEGAL2 (using system openssl is ok)
For this reason, it's preferable to have a variant so openssl use can be turned off, and to offer an alternative such as gnutls if possible. - Josh _______________________________________________ macports-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macports-dev
