<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div>On Fri, Apr 16, 2021 at 9:21 PM Joshua Root <<a href="mailto:jmr@macports.org" target="_blank">jmr@macports.org</a>> wrote:</div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div>OpenSSLException conflicts with everything except the OpenSSL license.</div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Wait, what? If OpenSSLException conflicts with everything except the OpenSSL license, doesn't that make it tautologically equivalent to the OpenSSL license itself? (i.e. the sentence is basically the same as saying "if and only if")</div><div><br></div><div>I thought the entire point of OpenSSLException was to specify that the authors have made the exception (in writing) that allows their GPL-licensed project to link against OpenSSL? Wouldn't that imply that OpenSSLException has to be compatible with something (i.e. the GPL) in addition to the OpenSSL license?<br></div><div><br></div><div><div dir="ltr" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div>-- </div><div>Jason Liu<br></div></div></div></div><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Apr 16, 2021 at 9:21 PM Joshua Root <<a href="mailto:jmr@macports.org" target="_blank">jmr@macports.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">On 2021-4-17 11:16 , Ryan Schmidt wrote:<br>
> <a href="https://build.macports.org/builders/ports-10.15_x86_64-builder/builds/55652/steps/gather-archives/logs/stdio" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://build.macports.org/builders/ports-10.15_x86_64-builder/builds/55652/steps/gather-archives/logs/stdio</a><br>
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>> "hydrogen" is not distributable because its license "GPL-2" conflicts with license "OpenSSLException" of dependency "qt5-qtbase"<br>
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> Does this make sense or is there an error in the script? Why would GPL-2 or anything conflict with OpenSSLException? It's just an exception. It lifts some restrictions imposed by the GPL. It shouldn't be imposing additional restrictions itself, should it?<br>
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Implementation detail. OpenSSLException conflicts with everything except <br>
the OpenSSL license. If you see that, it means that all the other <br>
license options also conflicted (in this case, GPL-3 or LGPL-3).<br>
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- Josh<br>
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