license question

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Oct 13, 2017, at 05:40, Zero King wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 12, 2017 at 01:26:02AM -0500, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
>> On Oct 11, 2017, at 21:27, Ken Cunningham wrote:
>>> 
>>> There is an additional exception from the author permitting linking
>>> with OpenSSL:
>> 
>> Can't wait for this to no longer be an issue, hopefully soon...
>> 
>> https://www.openssl.org/blog/blog/2017/03/22/license/
> 
> https://www.openssl.org/blog/blog/2017/06/17/code-removal/
> 
>> We are planning on only changing the license for the master branch, so the
>> other releases branches aren’t applicable.
> 
> License of OpenSSL 1.0.2 (and probably 1.1.0 too) won't change. So we can't
> change the license in Portfile when they finish re-licensing on their master
> branch.

But we can change it as soon as they release a new version under the new license. I don't know when they'll do that, but I hope it's soon! :)