From: Lucas Nussbaum <lucas@...>
Date: 2010-03-18T18:37:10+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:28740] Re: [Bug #2982] Ruby tries to link with both openssl and readline

On 18/03/10 at 18:23 +0900, Yukihiro Matsumoto wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> In message "Re: [ruby-core:28735] [Bug #2982] Ruby tries to link with both openssl and readline"
>     on Thu, 18 Mar 2010 17:01:38 +0900, Lucas Nussbaum <redmine@ruby-lang.org> writes:
> 
> |Ruby currently tries to link with both OpenSSL (which is under the SSL license), and Readline (GPL).
> 
> No.  The Ruby does not try to link with those libraries by default,
> unless explicitly required by the user, so that it is a user's
> responsibility to avoid loading those two in the same address space.

Users, and developers of third-party libraries and application. Note
that it is de-facto illegal to use openssl with GPL libraries/gems (and
there are quite a lot of GPL-only libraries/gems).

> License sucks.

Agreed ;)
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