Alex Vong <alexvong1...@gmail.com> writes: > I notice 'octave 4.0.2' has 'openssl@1.0.2h' as one of its inputs. As > far as I know, gplv3 is incompatible with openssl license > (https://people.gnome.org/~markmc/openssl-and-the-gpl.html).
Looks like you’re right. Other projects add a special openSSL linking exception, but Octave does not seem to account for this. > How should we fix this? It seems that the use of openssl in Octave is optional, so we could probably just remove it. From a cursory look it appears that it is used for not much more than the MD5 algorithm. Would you like to submit a patch that removes openssl from the inputs? It would be good to ask the Octave project if it would be possible to replace OpenSSL with, say, GnuTLS. ~~ Ricardo
