Bug#798421: Please don't depend specifically on the OpenSSL variant of Curl

2015-10-18 Thread Josh Triplett
On Wed, Sep 09, 2015 at 12:53:42PM +1000, Russell Sim wrote: > On 9 September 2015 at 12:37, Josh Triplett wrote: > > > I'd like to use libgit2 for projects under the GPL. Would you please > > consider either building libgit2 against the gnutls version of Curl, or > > otherwise making it possibl

Bug#798421: Please don't depend specifically on the OpenSSL variant of Curl

2015-09-26 Thread Josh Triplett
On Wed, 9 Sep 2015 12:53:42 +1000 Russell Sim wrote: > On 9 September 2015 at 12:37, Josh Triplett wrote: > > > I'd like to use libgit2 for projects under the GPL. Would you please > > consider either building libgit2 against the gnutls version of Curl, or > > otherwise making it possible to av

Bug#798421: Please don't depend specifically on the OpenSSL variant of Curl

2015-09-26 Thread Josh Triplett
On Fri, 18 Sep 2015 03:21:59 -0700 Ben Longbons wrote: > None of this solve the legal problems with OpenSSL, but they're kinda > probably planning relicensing soon ... To Apache 2.0, which will provide GPLv3 compatibility but not GPLv2 compatibility. (Still an improvement, though.) - Josh Tripl

Bug#798421: Please don't depend specifically on the OpenSSL variant of Curl

2015-09-18 Thread Ben Longbons
Control: severity -1 serious Actually, you can't afford for this to be wishlist, it's already led to a license violation of two rdepends. Looking at the rdepends: Not okay, GPL: kate, #799431 libkf5texteditor5, #799430 Looks okay: libgit2-dbg libgit2-dev libgit2-glib-1.0-0 python-p

Bug#798421: Please don't depend specifically on the OpenSSL variant of Curl

2015-09-18 Thread Ben Longbons
For technical measures, the only place in libgit2-dev where curl matters is in the Libs.private section of the .pc file, which is only used for static linking. The choice of curl does not form part of the dynamic library's ABI, other than the fact that if a dependent program tries to link the other

Bug#798421: Please don't depend specifically on the OpenSSL variant of Curl

2015-09-08 Thread Josh Triplett
On Wed, Sep 09, 2015 at 12:53:42PM +1000, Russell Sim wrote: > On 9 September 2015 at 12:37, Josh Triplett wrote: > > > I'd like to use libgit2 for projects under the GPL. Would you please > > consider either building libgit2 against the gnutls version of Curl, or > > otherwise making it possibl

Bug#798421: Please don't depend specifically on the OpenSSL variant of Curl

2015-09-08 Thread Russell Sim
On 9 September 2015 at 12:37, Josh Triplett wrote: > I'd like to use libgit2 for projects under the GPL. Would you please > consider either building libgit2 against the gnutls version of Curl, or > otherwise making it possible to avoid building with OpenSSL, for the > benefit of GPLed projects?

Bug#798421: Please don't depend specifically on the OpenSSL variant of Curl

2015-09-08 Thread Josh Triplett
Package: libgit2-dev Version: 0.23.1-1 Severity: wishlist I'd like to use libgit2 for projects under the GPL. Would you please consider either building libgit2 against the gnutls version of Curl, or otherwise making it possible to avoid building with OpenSSL, for the benefit of GPLed projects?