![]() Having clarified those general points, let's come to the concrete Volker is entitled to define the mission of mingw-cross-env to be toīuld GPL distributables, but I don't know if that is his intention. This is not obvious, given the useĬases of non-distribution and license-more-liberal-than-GPL. If "unexpected licensing issues" are mostly likely to be caused byĪccidentally mixing openssl and GPL, then the ranking here may beĪssuming that mingw-cross-env is used primarily (or most importantly)įor producing GPLed distributables. With "sensible defaults" I'm thinking of two points, in that order:ġ) don't make the developer run into unexpected licensing issuesĢ) make the packages as feature complete as possible Mingw-cross-env should always provide sensible defaults. Solve the licensing issues of their projects, I also think that not our responsibility) to be aware of and to While I fully agree with Tony that it is the developers' This depends in part on one's view on LGPL It might also be permissible to distribute software linked to both ![]() Software, so non-distributed use poses no problem. GPL imposes no requirements on non-distributed software linking to GPL The concern motivating this thread is that someone GPL requires GPLĬompatibility of the distributed software, but this is impossibleīecause of openssl. Linking to openssl means that the library is packaged with theĪpplication, precluding the "system library" exception.Ī clearly problematic scenario would be where software is distributed inĬompiled form linked to both GPL software and openssl. Is not considered a system library on Windows. May be a "system library" exception to this incompatibility, but openssl Requirements on distribution that make it incompatible with GPL. I'm still keen on avoiding a license thread, but it's probably a goodĪs I understand it, the openssl license imposes some "advertising" Licensing issues, and I think we should do that in this case, too. We already disabled someĬompiling options for other projects (e.g. The OpenSSL issue is a very important point. I also hope that MarkĪctually, I made the second post in this thread but since then have just Sorry for joining the discussion so lately. Re: License issue / dependencies on OpenSSL Re: License issue / dependencies on OpenSSL mingw-cross-env-list
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