Re: git-fetch in 1.5.4 fails versus 1.5.3.8
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Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
- Date
- Feb 7, 2008, 18:42 UTC
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On Thu, 7 Feb 2008, Frank Lichtenheld wrote:
> > Since git has no OpenSSL link exception the resulting binary wouldn't be > distributable AFAIK.
For crazy people who think that regular libraries can change the copyright status of a program (not so), you can always decide to build without OpenSSL and use the included Mozilla-based SHA1 implementation for git.
Performance will probably suffer, and maybe something else breaks too (I doubt many people test the build that way very often), but I assume Debian people don't care.
After all, if you're a Debian person, it's likely more important to you to be difficult and anal and argue about theoretical license details than actually be *usable*.
Linus