In article 
<cadisq7f0cnzrfm4i8xj13j+slq63uynqkdo12czm5yeq3bf...@mail.gmail.com>,
 Nick Coghlan <ncogh...@gmail.com> wrote:
> You also reminded me that I need to dig around for and reference Ned's
> email about the status of OS X and reference that (OpenSSL upgrades
> were a casualty of Apple's anti-GPL crusade, so the OS X installers
> were switched to static linking somewhere along the line).

AFAIK, Apple's decision to deprecate OpenSSL has nothing to do with the 
GPL, since OpenSSL isn't GPL-licensed, but rather with OpenSSL API 
compatibility issues:

http://rentzsch.tumblr.com/post/33696323211/wherein-i-write-apples-techno
te-about-openssl-on-os-x

-- 
 Ned Deily,
 n...@acm.org

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