Re: octave license is incompatible with openssl

[ng0]

John Darrington <address@hidden> writes:

> I would not be at all suprised if there were more incompatibilities like
> this.  Ought we not have  a lint rule that checks this?
>
> J'
>
> On Fri, Aug 05, 2016 at 12:35:54AM +0800, Alex Vong wrote:
>      Hi guixes,
>      
>      First, congratulations to Ricardo Wurmus as new maintainer and the new
>      0.11 release is good (it passed all tests)!
>      
>      I notice 'octave 4.0.2' has 'address@hidden' as one of its inputs. As
>      far as I know, gplv3 is incompatible with openssl license
>      (https://people.gnome.org/~markmc/openssl-and-the-gpl.html).
>      
>      How should we fix this?
>      
>      
>      Cheers,
>      Alex
>
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Isn't this an upstream problem? I don't know octave but is openssl
required? Can it be replaced by something different?

Does this require upstream action/reporting?
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