cvs commit: ports/net/gaim Makefile distinfo pkg-plist

[Jacques A. Vidrine]

On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 09:23:05PM +0100, Stijn Hoop wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 11:12:25AM -0800, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
> > marcus      2003/12/17 11:12:25 PST
> > 
> >   FreeBSD ports repository
> > 
> >   Modified files:
> >     net/gaim             Makefile distinfo pkg-plist 
> >   Log:
> >   Remove the OpenSSL plug-in.  The gaim authors do not feel OpenSSL is
> >   a system library, and thus not part of the GPL exemption.
> 
> That's weird on a system where OpenSSL is part of the base distribution...
> (well crypto but it is indeed on the OS CD's and installed by default on
> all types of installations).
> 
> I would hope that the OpenSSL authors would give explicit permission to
> use the library in GPL products, but I'm guessing that would be too much
> to hope for...

[Disclaimer:  I love gaim.]

The OpenSSL authors have.  It is the *Gaim* authors who have
apparently gone looney.  They insist that it is a GPL violation to
link Gaim with OpenSSL, since OpenSSL has an advertising clause and is
thus incompatible with the GPL.

Of course, this benefits no one, except maybe the GNU TLS authors.
(The thread I saw had a subtext of ``The goal here is to replace
OpenSSL with GNU TLS.''  Or maybe I read in too much.)

Cheers,
-- 
Jacques Vidrine   NTT/Verio SME      FreeBSD UNIX       Heimdal
nectar at celabo.org jvidrine at verio.net nectar at freebsd.org nectar at kth.se