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But SHA1 and SHA256 are commonly available accelerated in hardware.
For this very small subset of routines should we not consider
libcrypto as a system library to these hardware specific interfaces.
This has nothing to do with what we "should consider".
It is a legal criterion stated in the GPL.
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Dr Richard Stallman
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Skype: No way! That's nonfree (freedom-denying) software.
Use Ekiga or an ordinary phone call.