Christian Heimes wrote: > M.-A. Lemburg wrote: >> Why not include the prebuilt libraries of all external libs in SVN >> as well ? > > For one I'm still using Beta 2 of the standard edition and I'm not > allowed to distribute binaries build with the Beta. With the new > pre-build steps it's also very easy to build the dependencies. I don't > like to add more binaries to the svn repos. > >> BTW: Are you including the patented algorithms in the standard >> OpenSSL build or excluding them ? >> >> The patented ones are RC5, IDEA and MDC2: > > [snip] > >> I'd opt for not including these algorithms, as it's just >> too easy for the user to overlook this license requirement. > > Thanks for thinking about license problems! I didn't even think about > checking the licenses since I was under the impression that restricted > algorithms are disabled by default. > > I've disabled IDEA in the makefiles and configure headers of openssl. > I've also added another step to the makefile patcher in build_ssl. It > makes sure that the three algorithms are disabled. > I believe the patent on MDC2 expired this year, though this is not an authoritative opinion.
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