>
> Yes, it looks like several other projects use an exception clause in
> their distribution (such as wget):  see 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Openssl#The_exception
>

We absolutely CANNOT.  Changing our license would require permission from 
everybody who has contributed to SAGE, and possibly from everything else we 
touch.   That would require a monumental amount of effort for a very small 
benefit.

Immediately, we should take down the relevant versions of SAGE.

In the short term, we should make the package optional & make its installation 
interactive.

In the not-very-distant future (SD4?), we should switch to GNU TLS.



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