[flac-dev] [PATCH] Optionally, allow distros to use openssl for MD5 verification

[Miroslav Lichvar]

On Sat, May 05, 2012 at 05:34:31PM -0400, Cristian Rodríguez wrote:
> This has the advantage of being more efficient than the included
> routines and allows distros to centralize crypto mainteniance on
> a few libraries.

Isn't the OpenSSL license incompatible with GPL? IANAL, but I think
the flac and metaflac utilities can't be linked with OpenSSL unless
there is an exception in the flac license which would require getting
the permission from all contributors.

I'd suggest to use the NSS library instead. It has an API just for
hashing (NSSLOWHASH) which can be used with just one small library
(freebl3) instead of the whole NSS stack.

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Miroslav Lichvar