GNU bug report logs - #77825
our git linked with openssl, license is incompatible

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From: Greg Hogan <code <at> greghogan.com>
To: Z572 <z572 <at> z572.online>
Cc: guix-devel <at> gnu.org, bug-guix <at> gnu.org
Subject: Re: our git linked with openssl, license is incompatible
Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2025 10:09:33 -0400

On Tue, Apr 15, 2025 at 4:38 AM Z572 <z572 <at> z572.online> wrote:
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> see https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1094969

Should we follow Debian's lead and close this bug?

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From: Efraim Flashner <efraim <at> flashner.co.il>
To: Greg Hogan <code <at> greghogan.com>
Cc: guix-devel <at> gnu.org, Z572 <z572 <at> z572.online>, bug-guix <at> gnu.org
Subject: Re: our git linked with openssl, license is incompatible
Date: Thu, 1 May 2025 14:48:58 +0300

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On Tue, Apr 15, 2025 at 10:09:33AM -0400, Greg Hogan wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 15, 2025 at 4:38 AM Z572 <z572 <at> z572.online> wrote:
> >
> > see https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1094969
> 
> Should we follow Debian's lead and close this bug?

I followed the debian bug at the time and I checked our version of git.
We have openssl integrated in several places in git (specifically in
cyrus-sasl) where gnutls wasn't a drop-in replacement. I think it would
be nice to be able to use gnutls instead of openssl in more places but
I'm willing to follow Debian's lead here.

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Message #11 received at submit <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Felix Lechner <felix.lechner <at> lease-up.com>
To: Greg Hogan <code <at> greghogan.com>
Cc: guix-devel <at> gnu.org, Z572 <z572 <at> z572.online>, bug-guix <at> gnu.org
Subject: Re: our git linked with openssl, license is incompatible
Date: Thu, 01 May 2025 07:59:53 -0700

Hi Efraim,

On Thu, May 01 2025, Efraim Flashner wrote:

> gnutls wasn't a drop-in replacement

wolfSSL could be such a "drop-in" replacement. [1] Their OpenSSL
compatibility layer became popular when OpenSSL lost their FIPS rating
for a little while, but I ported software to it long before.

wolfSSL was once the captive TLS library for MySQL.  Excluded from
Orca's acquisition of MySQL, they struck out on their own.  wolfSSL is
popular in the embedded space, especially in cars and washing machines.

Kind regards
Felix

[1] https://www.wolfssl.com/wolfssl-supports-git/

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