Re: GPL and OpenSSL
It could be replaced via Debain patch.
AFAIK something similar is done for Apache (or APR?)
2012/6/5 José Luis Segura Lucas <josel.segura@gmx.es>:
> I'm starting the packaging work for grive [1].
>
> When I finished the first aproach to the Debian package, I run lintian to
> see the possible errors, and between a big set of warning, I found the next
> error:
>
> possible-gpl-code-linked-with-openssl
>
> I speak with upstream authors and they tell me that they know the problem
> between OpenSSL and GPL, but for now they keep using OpenSSL because they
> only uses the MD5 sum function.
>
> Is this md5 function compatible with GPL license? If it isn't, are there any
> other implementation compatible with GPL2?
>
> Best regards y thanks in advance for your help :-)
>
> [1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=675310
>
> --
> José Luis Segura Lucas
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