From: Marcus Rueckert <darix@...>
Date: 2010-03-21T05:38:07+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:28834] Re: [Bug #2982] Ruby tries to link with both openssl and readline

On 2010-03-21 05:25:01 +0900, Michal Suchanek wrote:
> On 20 March 2010 20:50, Ryan Davis <ryand-ruby@zenspider.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Mar 19, 2010, at 15:42 , caleb clausen wrote:
> >
> >> How much effort would be needed to internationalize libedit?
> >
> > Apparently this has already been done, but not released yet. Aaron found recent commits in their repo that look like they'll save us from this BS.
> >
> 
> Changing to libedit makes this part of Ruby more usable I guess.
> 
> However, removing OpenSSL is really the way to go since there are
> multiple GPL extensions in Ruby and probably quite a few in gems as
> well. I am not sure why OpenSSL is incompatible with GPL but since
> FSF/Debian determined it is and they are really the ones behind GPL I
> guess it's better to avoid the combination.

well if gnutls would be ready to replace it ....

GPL in general is problematic aswell, especially v3.

    darix

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