Resent. I hope it reaches the list now. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Eddy Petrișor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 28 Nov 2007 01:13 Subject: possible openssl license violation via curl To: "Talk about development of Wormux." <wormux-dev@gna.org>
Hello people, >> Enable wormux to be compiled statically! >> The configure flag --enable-static works for me now. >> The curl check is not optimal, but still needed otherwise autotools produce a bad >> commandline with invalid ordering. This line rememberd me that I should point out a license violation of openssl via the usage of libcurl. The problem is that curl may have either openssl or gnutls as ssl backends and, by default wormux forces -lssl when linking which leads to oopenssl code being included. The problem is known in curl upstream and in Debian: http://curl.haxx.se/legal/distro-dilemma.html http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=318590 I have made such that wormux in Debian compiles against libcurl-gnutls to avoid the issues, but this will appear once 0.8beta3-1 is uploaded. Possible solutions include: - force linking against a curl with gnutls backend - making the right changes in the license to allow the exceptions imposed by the OpenSSL license: http://www.openssl.org/source/license.html - drop using curl in favour of something else Could someone make a bug out of this mail? -- Regards, EddyP ============================================= "Imagination is more important than knowledge" A.Einstein -- Regards, EddyP ============================================= "Imagination is more important than knowledge" A.Einstein _______________________________________________ Wormux-dev mailing list Wormux-dev@gna.org https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/wormux-dev
