*snip*
> No.  We are talking about removing a GPL infected library from the base
> tree that is used by a couple of utterly performance irrelevant utilities
> and making these couple of utilities (secure-rpc key generation tools)
> use the OpenSSL bignum API - where OpenSSL has a BSD-style license.
> 
> This has absolutely no effect on openssl at all.
> 
> > Really? This hardly seems like a good idea.
> 
> No.  We can't plug libgmp into openssl anyway due to GPL infection and the
> resulting license conflicts.  openssl *explicitly* may not be distributed
> under GPL.  And building libgmp into openssl would require exactly that.
*snip*

Oh, I see.
Nevermind then, sounds good. (Somehow I missed the libgmp<->GPL
relationship.)

gh

(Apologies to the CC's who didn't need this aside.)

> Cheers,
> -Peter
> --
> Peter Wemm - [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> "All of this is for nothing if we don't go to the stars" - JMS/B5
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