Re: [Monotone-devel] Future of monotone

[Patrick Georgi]

address@hidden schrieb:
> There's the libssl package in Debian.  aptitude tells me
>
> Description: SSL shared libraries
>   libssl and libcrypto shared libraries needed by programs like 
> apache-ssl, telnet and openssh
>
>   It is part of the OpenSSL implementation of SSL.
>
> Is that at all relevant?
>   
Take a hard look at licensing.

libssl was (last time I looked) 4-clause bsd licensed (bsd + 
advertising), and thus triggered the license incompatibility mode of the 
GPL.

There might be some GNU/GPL rewrite of it - at least something along 
that lines was planned. But given that other libssl-using GPL sources 
aren't build against such a replacement in the Debian repository (eg. 
netatalk), I might be mistaken on it (or that project just isn't far 
enough yet)


Regards,
Patrick Georgi