openssl vs. libressl

[Brandon Allbery]

On Wed, Nov 11, 2015 at 11:57 AM, René J.V. <rjvbertin at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wednesday November 11 2015 08:14:59 Bradley Giesbrecht wrote:
> > > On Nov 11, 2015, at 4:15 AM, René J.V. Bertin <rjvbertin at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > I believe most openssl dependent ports are not binary distributable due
> to the openssl license.
>
> There is indeed some kind of restriction, but apparently not as severe as
> you think. The port-check-distributable.tcl utility shows curl to be just
> that, for instance.


The default is nondistributable; there's an override that can be manually
added because the OpenSSL license has some specific exemptions, and is not
present in all ports that could use it. And because it is specific, some
ports probably can't use it.

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