[Python-Dev] PEP 466 (round 2): Network security enhancements for Python 2.7 (original) (raw)
Ned Deily nad at acm.org
Mon Mar 24 18:23:37 CET 2014
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In article <CADiSq7f0CnzrfM4i8xJ13J+sLq63UYNQkDo12CZM5yeQ3BfRdA at mail.gmail.com>, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:
You also reminded me that I need to dig around for and reference Ned's email about the status of OS X and reference that (OpenSSL upgrades were a casualty of Apple's anti-GPL crusade, so the OS X installers were switched to static linking somewhere along the line).
AFAIK, Apple's decision to deprecate OpenSSL has nothing to do with the GPL, since OpenSSL isn't GPL-licensed, but rather with OpenSSL API compatibility issues:
http://rentzsch.tumblr.com/post/33696323211/wherein-i-write-apples-techno te-about-openssl-on-os-x
-- Ned Deily, nad at acm.org
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