Re: octave license is incompatible with openssl

[Ricardo Wurmus]

Alex Vong <address@hidden> writes:

> I notice 'octave 4.0.2' has 'address@hidden' as one of its inputs. As
> far as I know, gplv3 is incompatible with openssl license
> (https://people.gnome.org/~markmc/openssl-and-the-gpl.html).

Looks like you’re right.  Other projects add a special openSSL linking
exception, but Octave does not seem to account for this.

> How should we fix this?

It seems that the use of openssl in Octave is optional, so we could
probably just remove it.  From a cursory look it appears that it is used
for not much more than the MD5 algorithm.  Would you like to submit a
patch that removes openssl from the inputs?

It would be good to ask the Octave project if it would be possible to
replace OpenSSL with, say, GnuTLS.

~~ Ricardo