[Bug 196591] Review Request: bitlbee

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Summary: Review Request: bitlbee


https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=196591


cweyl at alumni.drew.edu changed:

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------- Additional Comments From cweyl at alumni.drew.edu  2006-07-14 17:39 EST -------
This (longish) message during ./configure worries me:

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No detection code exists for OpenSSL. Make sure that you have a complete
install of OpenSSL (including devel/header files) before reporting
compilation problems.

Also, keep in mind that the OpenSSL is, according to some people, not
completely GPL-compatible. Using GnuTLS or NSS is recommended and better
supported by us. However, on many BSD machines, OpenSSL can be considered
part of the operating system, which makes it GPL-compatible.

For more info, see: http://www.openssl.org/support/faq.html#LEGAL2
                    http://www.gnome.org/~markmc/openssl-and-the-gpl.html

Please note that distributing a BitlBee binary which links to OpenSSL is
probably illegal. If you want to create and distribute a binary BitlBee
package, you really should use GnuTLS or NSS instead.

Also, the OpenSSL license requires us to say this:
 *    "This product includes software developed by the OpenSSL Project
 *    for use in the OpenSSL Toolkit. (http://www.openssl.org/)"
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The prototypical casual observer in me asks, "Wouldn't it be better to compile
this against gnutls?"  If there are compelling reasons to compile against
openssl, I suspect FE-LEGAL should be blocked by this bug as well.

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