dependency to openssl

Dirk Hohndel dirk at hohndel.org
Fri Feb 15 15:09:47 PST 2013


Lovely. Linus, since you imho are quite clearly the sole copyright 
holder of the code using openssl, would you prefer to issue an 
exception or would you rather switch to gnutls (assuming that's even an 
option, I'm on my phone and haven't checked if the necessary functions 
are supported by that...)

/D



On February 15, 2013 3:00:25 PM Cristian Ionescu-Idbohrn 
<cristian.ionescu-idbohrn at axis.com> wrote:
> Just noticed, doing:
>
> 	$ readelf -a ./subsurface | grep NEEDED
>
> that subsurface links against openssl:
>
>  0x0000000000000001 (NEEDED)             Shared library: [libssl.so.1.0.0]
>  0x0000000000000001 (NEEDED)             Shared library: [libcrypto.so.1.0.0]
>
> and traces of openssl show up in:
>
> Makefile:144:LIBS = $(LIBXML2) $(LIBXSLT) $(LIBGTK) $(LIBGCONF2) 
> $(LIBDIVECOMPUTER) $(EXTRALIBS) $(LIBZIP) -lpthread -lm -lssl -lcrypto 
> $(LIBOSMGPSMAP) $(LIBSOUP)
> README:48:gconf2-devel, libssl-devel, libsoup-devel to build this (and
> README:54:libglib2.0-dev libgconf2-dev libssl-dev libsoup2.4-dev, but it seems
> dive.h:12:#include <openssl/sha.h>
>
> Now, some distributions (read debian, maybe others) are a bit anal about
> that.  See, for example:
>
> 	http://lists.debian.org/debian-mentors/2012/06/msg00105.html
> 	http://www.openssl.org/support/faq.html#LEGAL2
>
>
> Cheers,
>
> --
> Cristian
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