licence problem -- build against libcurl3-gnutls

Bug #46020 reported by Dave Love
4
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Darcs
Unknown
Unknown
darcs (Ubuntu)
Confirmed
Medium
Unassigned

Bug Description

darcs is linked against openssl. That is
incompatible with its GPL licence, which doesn't
have an exception for openssl. It should be
built against libcurl3-gnutls to avoid the issue.
I haven't tried rebuilding the Ubuntu package, but
it works with the original distribution to install
libcurl3-gnutls-dev and reconfigure/rebuild.

I've raised a darcs bug suggesting adding an
exception to the licence.

Changed in darcs:
status: Unknown → In Progress
Daniel T Chen (crimsun)
Changed in darcs:
status: New → Confirmed
Changed in darcs:
status: In Progress → Unknown
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