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

[Erik de Castro Lopo]

Cristian Rodríguez wrote:

> flac and metaflac do not use openSSL, only libFLAC does.

But flac and metaflac are GPL and link (possibly statically) to 
libFLAC.

> Personally I don't see any technical reason to use a different library 
> other than politics and obscure potential license incompatibilities.

A license incompatibility is a license incompatiility and you
can't just cover your eyes and pretend it isn't there.

For instance in Debian, there are numerous packages that have
libreadline (GPL) support disabled because the package uses
OpenSSL.

Erik
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