From: Junichi Uekawa Date: Sun, 17 Apr 2005 22:36:06 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH] use gcrypt instead of libssl for hash Message-ID: <87fyxp1161.dancerj@netfort.gr.jp> In-Reply-To: Hi, Thanks for your comments. > > This is the first time for me to send you a patch; be gentle. > > the following patch allows for use of gcrypt. > > Well, libgcrypt seems to be pretty rare out there - I certainly don't have > it installed on my machine. Hmm... okay. Might be the case if you don't use much of GNOME and other apps. > > libssl seems to have a restrictive licensing wrt GPL applications. > > The GPL makes explicit mention of the system libraries (which openssl > definitely is by now), so it's ok by the GPL . And I don't see how you'd > claim that the openssl license doesn't allow it. So it all looks ok by me. >From a standpoint of Debian Developer; it feels not-so-clear; since Debian will be distributing openssl and git. openssl guys seem to recommend adding a quote, which might be sufficient. "This program is released under the GPL with the additional exemption that compiling, linking, and/or using OpenSSL is allowed." http://www.openssl.org/support/faq.html#LEGAL2 > But requiring libgcrypt seems silly. Especially as the libgcrypt > interfaces are horribly ugly, much more so than the openssl ones - so even > if you use libgcrypt, you don't actually want to use it directly, you want > to have much nicer wrappers around it. I'll consider wrappers approach. regards, junichi -- Junichi Uekawa, Debian Developer 17D6 120E 4455 1832 9423 7447 3059 BF92 CD37 56F4 http://www.netfort.gr.jp/~dancer/