On Sat, Jul 19, 2008 at 2:01 PM, Teran McKinney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I have been working on an Arch fork for the past several months, and > thus have been following Arch developments closely. I noticed this > commit ( > http://projects.archlinux.org/gitweb.cgi?p=pacman.git;a=commit;h=b8a66d68593d1f267c3bb8cd8943724711626903 > ), where OpenSSL replaces the usage of md5sum and sha1sum utilities > for Pacman. Hold up right here. You read it wrong. This is for *makepkg* only, we have *never* linked in anything external for pacman proper. We are currently using code from XySSL as our md5sum routine, which is dual licensed under BSD and GPL.
I do not believe calling a binary has ever been construed as linking- correct me if I am wrong. With that said, the rest of your email is pretty much off base. > While I like the idea of using libraries instead of > external binaries, I feel that linking to OpenSSL complicates a few > things. For one, it is big, and must be included with any non-static > binaries of Pacman (in the installer, this would not be so ideal, > unless OpenSSL is included anyways). Another, is that it is simply not > legal under the GPL. OpenSSL includes an advertising clause that makes > it incompatible with the GPL. Wget and climm had to modify their GPL > licenses to link to it ( > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Openssl#Licensing ). > > I purpose using GNUTLS instead. It is released under the LGPLv2.1, > should be fully capable, and is compatible with the GPL. Many projects > that use OpenSSL can also optionally link to GNUTLS instead, so I > would suggest doing so with all possible packages (lftp, elinks, > wget). What are your thoughts about this? Wrong ML is what I think about this. We don't decide Arch policy here, only discuss pacman development. > Pacman is an excellent package manager; thank you for all of the work > that you put into it. Thanks! And if you have any more questions about this, shoot us another email. -Dan _______________________________________________ pacman-dev mailing list [email protected] http://archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/pacman-dev
