On Tuesday, 17 October 2017 22:46:52 UTC+2, Michael Orlitzky wrote: > > On 10/17/2017 03:56 PM, Emmanuel Charpentier wrote: > > > > Throwing my vote away: > > > > [X] Require OpenSSL to be installed on the system. > > > > > > That's not one of the proposed options. > > That's what I meant by "throwing my vote away" =) > > > > But it seems to imply that we should wait for OpenSSL relicensing. > > We don't have to wait if we require it to be installed on the system. > > "Wait for OpenSSL to relicense" is a bad option because they will > probably never relicense -- even if they ultimately change their LICENSE > file, the process by which they've done it is extremely dubious, and > several copyright holders are on record withholding permission to do so. > > What makes you think their process is dubious? They are reaching out for consent from all people who have contributed, and they have removed the code from the several people who have objected on record.
"Include it anyway" is a bad option because we've just announced to the > world that we're going to commit (willful) copyright infringement. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
