Openssl: built-in or ports?

Jeremy Lavergne jeremy at lavergne.gotdns.org
Tue Mar 31 07:20:42 PDT 2009


Presently, MacPorts doesn't distribute binaries.

> 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)
>
>> Go with the MacPorts version of openssl:  MacPorts is meant to be  
>> entirely self-contained.
>>
>>> 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?

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