Re: SHA, MD, and openssl

[Richard Stallman]

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    The pattern, I expect, is that if it's reasonable to consider
    running Emacs on a GNU/Linux-based platform, these days openssl
    is most likely a standard part of that platform.

The actual criterion is

      The "System Libraries" of an executable work include anything, other
    than the work as a whole, that (a) is included in the normal form of
    packaging a Major Component, but which is not part of that Major
    Component, and (b) serves only to enable use of the work with that
    Major Component, or to implement a Standard Interface for which an
    implementation is available to the public in source code form.

I don't think OpenSSL is included in the normal form of
packaging Linux, and I don't think it satisfies (b) either.

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