Openssl: built-in or ports?

Anders F Björklund afb at macports.org
Tue Mar 31 07:09:55 PDT 2009


Jeremy Lavergne wrote:

> Go with the MacPorts version of openssl:  MacPorts is meant to be  
> entirely self-contained.
>
> On Mar 31, 2009, at 9:58 AM, Anand Buddhdev wrote:
>
>> My question is: is it okay for me to specify the port to use the
>> built-in openssl, or is it better to make the port depend on the
>> openssl from ports?


Using the MacPorts version of OpenSSL has a licensing problem with
GPL ports, though... When distributing package binaries, that is.

Like http://www.finkproject.org/doc/packaging/policy.php? 
phpLang=en#openssl
http://www.openssl.org/support/faq.html#LEGAL2 (using system openssl  
is ok)

--anders



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