From owner-freebsd-current Thu Jun 21 15:15:50 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from draco.over-yonder.net (draco.over-yonder.net [198.78.58.61]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 527B337B407 for ; Thu, 21 Jun 2001 15:15:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gh@over-yonder.net) Received: by draco.over-yonder.net (Postfix, from userid 1012) id 7995262D0C; Thu, 21 Jun 2001 17:15:45 -0500 (CDT) Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2001 17:15:45 -0500 From: GH To: Peter Wemm Cc: Kris Kennaway , Terry Lambert , Giorgos Keramidas , Steve Kargl , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: convert libgmp to a port? Message-ID: <20010621171545.A34262@over-yonder.net> References: <20010621155809.A34073@over-yonder.net> <20010621214046.7A3363808@overcee.netplex.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010621214046.7A3363808@overcee.netplex.com.au>; from peter@wemm.org on Thu, Jun 21, 2001 at 02:40:46PM -0700 X-OS: FreeBSD Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG *snip* > No. We are talking about removing a GPL infected library from the base > tree that is used by a couple of utterly performance irrelevant utilities > and making these couple of utilities (secure-rpc key generation tools) > use the OpenSSL bignum API - where OpenSSL has a BSD-style license. > > This has absolutely no effect on openssl at all. > > > Really? This hardly seems like a good idea. > > No. We can't plug libgmp into openssl anyway due to GPL infection and the > resulting license conflicts. openssl *explicitly* may not be distributed > under GPL. And building libgmp into openssl would require exactly that. *snip* Oh, I see. Nevermind then, sounds good. (Somehow I missed the libgmp<->GPL relationship.) gh (Apologies to the CC's who didn't need this aside.) > Cheers, > -Peter > -- > Peter Wemm - peter@FreeBSD.org; peter@yahoo-inc.com; peter@netplex.com.au > "All of this is for nothing if we don't go to the stars" - JMS/B5 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message