From: Linus Torvalds Date: Thu, 07 Feb 2008 18:42:15 GMT Subject: Re: git-fetch in 1.5.4 fails versus 1.5.3.8 Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <20080207142322.GC18497@mail-vs.djpig.de> 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