Re: [Pkg-julia-devel] Linking libgit2 to OpenSSL

2016-07-28 Thread Josh Triplett
On Thu, Jul 28, 2016 at 10:45:18PM -0400, Peter Colberg wrote: > On Thu, Jul 28, 2016 at 05:21:59PM -0700, Josh Triplett wrote: > > On Thu, Jul 28, 2016 at 07:49:07PM -0400, Peter Colberg wrote: > > > The julia maintainers have proposed to libgit2 upstream to support > > > mbedTLS [1] as an alterna

Re: [Pkg-julia-devel] Linking libgit2 to OpenSSL

2016-07-28 Thread Peter Colberg
On Thu, Jul 28, 2016 at 05:21:59PM -0700, Josh Triplett wrote: > On Thu, Jul 28, 2016 at 07:49:07PM -0400, Peter Colberg wrote: > > The julia maintainers have proposed to libgit2 upstream to support > > mbedTLS [1] as an alternative. That is a long-term solution however > > that will take another y

Re: [Pkg-julia-devel] Linking libgit2 to OpenSSL

2016-07-28 Thread Josh Triplett
On Thu, Jul 28, 2016 at 07:49:07PM -0400, Peter Colberg wrote: > On Thu, Jul 28, 2016 at 04:34:16PM -0700, Josh Triplett wrote: > > On Thu, Jul 28, 2016 at 06:36:58PM -0400, Peter Colberg wrote: > > > I am suggesting to provide two variants of libgit2, without and with > > > support for https://, w

Re: [Pkg-julia-devel] Linking libgit2 to OpenSSL

2016-07-28 Thread Peter Colberg
On Thu, Jul 28, 2016 at 04:34:16PM -0700, Josh Triplett wrote: > On Thu, Jul 28, 2016 at 06:36:58PM -0400, Peter Colberg wrote: > > I am suggesting to provide two variants of libgit2, without and with > > support for https://, with the latter linking to OpenSSL, similar to > > the multiple variants

Re: Linking libgit2 to OpenSSL

2016-07-28 Thread Josh Triplett
On Thu, Jul 28, 2016 at 06:36:58PM -0400, Peter Colberg wrote: > On Thu, Jul 28, 2016 at 03:26:46PM -0700, Josh Triplett wrote: > > Unfortunately, libgit2 also doesn't seem to support any TLS library > > other than OpenSSL. That's a serious problem for GPLed software, and > > Debian already has so

Re: Linking libgit2 to OpenSSL

2016-07-28 Thread Peter Colberg
On Thu, Jul 28, 2016 at 03:26:46PM -0700, Josh Triplett wrote: > Unfortunately, libgit2 also doesn't seem to support any TLS library > other than OpenSSL. That's a serious problem for GPLed software, and > Debian already has some GPLed software linking to libgit2 (which led to > the switch to link

Re: Linking libgit2 to OpenSSL

2016-07-28 Thread Josh Triplett
On Thu, Jul 28, 2016 at 02:38:46PM -0700, Josh Triplett wrote: > On Thu, Jul 28, 2016 at 05:12:55PM -0400, Peter Colberg wrote: > > Dear Debian legal team, > > > > The next release of julia will use libgit2 (Cc'ed recent maintainers) > > to retrieve package repositories via https://. This requires

Re: [Pkg-julia-devel] Linking libgit2 to OpenSSL

2016-07-28 Thread Peter Colberg
On Thu, Jul 28, 2016 at 02:38:47PM -0700, Josh Triplett wrote: > I don't speak for libgit2 upstream, but yes, that license exception > allows linking libgit2 with arbitrary non-GPL-compatible software, > including OpenSSL. Perfect, thank you for the confirmation. Upstream intended the linking exc

Re: Linking libgit2 to OpenSSL

2016-07-28 Thread Josh Triplett
On Thu, Jul 28, 2016 at 05:12:55PM -0400, Peter Colberg wrote: > Dear Debian legal team, > > The next release of julia will use libgit2 (Cc'ed recent maintainers) > to retrieve package repositories via https://. This requires libgit2 > to be linked directly to OpenSSL [1]. > > libgit2 is licensed

Linking libgit2 to OpenSSL

2016-07-28 Thread Peter Colberg
Dear Debian legal team, The next release of julia will use libgit2 (Cc'ed recent maintainers) to retrieve package repositories via https://. This requires libgit2 to be linked directly to OpenSSL [1]. libgit2 is licensed [2] under GPLv2 with this exception: --