Ricardo Wurmus <rek...@elephly.net> writes:
> 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?
>
Here it is. It takes a long time to track down that curl is pulling the
openssl depedency. I also upgrade octave to 4.0.3 and change to use
'tar.xz'.
> It would be good to ask the Octave project if it would be possible to
> replace OpenSSL with, say, GnuTLS.
>
I agree, should we CC/forward this discussion to octave-devel list?
> ~~ Ricardo
Cheers,
Alex
>From f813b22539c6cefd49471f7df3adc4b02ebcd76c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Alex Vong <alexvong1...@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 6 Aug 2016 08:52:34 +0800
Subject: [PATCH] gnu: octave: Update to 4.0.3.
* gnu/packages/maths.scm (octave): Update to 4.0.3.
[source]: Change to '.tar.xz'.
[inputs]: Remove dependencies on openssl and curl.
---
gnu/packages/maths.scm | 11 ++++++-----
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
diff --git a/gnu/packages/maths.scm b/gnu/packages/maths.scm
index fcea0bc..149c533 100644
--- a/gnu/packages/maths.scm
+++ b/gnu/packages/maths.scm
@@ -692,16 +692,19 @@ can solve two kinds of problems:
(define-public octave
(package
(name "octave")
- (version "4.0.2")
+ (version "4.0.3")
(source
(origin
(method url-fetch)
(uri (string-append "mirror://gnu/octave/octave-"
- version ".tar.gz"))
+ version ".tar.xz"))
(sha256
(base32
- "1hdxap3j88rpqjimnfhinym6z73wdi5dfa6fv85c13r1dk9qzk9r"))))
+ "11day29k4yfvxh4101x5yf26ld992x5n6qvmhjjk6mzsd26fqayw"))))
(build-system gnu-build-system)
+ ;; Ideally, curl should be in the list of inputs to enable ftp support.
+ ;; It isn't because it causes octave to link against openssl which isn't allowed
+ ;; as octave's license has no openssl exception at the moment.
(inputs
`(("lapack" ,lapack)
("readline" ,readline)
@@ -709,7 +712,6 @@ can solve two kinds of problems:
("fftw" ,fftw)
("fftwf" ,fftwf)
("arpack" ,arpack-ng)
- ("curl" ,curl)
("pcre" ,pcre)
("cyrus-sasl" ,cyrus-sasl)
("fltk" ,fltk)
@@ -719,7 +721,6 @@ can solve two kinds of problems:
("libxft" ,libxft)
("mesa" ,mesa)
("glu" ,glu)
- ("openssl" ,openssl)
("zlib" ,zlib)))
(native-inputs
`(("gfortran" ,gfortran)
--
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