GMP in COPYING.Ylonen

Jeff Bailey jbailey at nisa.net
Wed Dec 13 16:06:26 EST 2000


On Wed, Dec 13, 2000 at 03:47:26PM +1100, Damien Miller wrote:

> > COPYING.Ylonen contains:
> > [ GMP is now external. No more GNU licence. ]
> > 
> > I don't see how GMP is linked in at all.  rms asked me to look into this, 
> > because this might constitute a license conflict.
>  
> GMP isn't used at all. OpenSSH uses the OpenSSL library for its bignum
> functions.

Thanks!  It might be worth changing that to say "is no longer used" to 
make it clearer.

-- 
No matter how big the bell, if you only tap it, it can give out only a
faint sound.  We must understand thoroughly that the weakness of the blow,
not a fault of the bell makes the sound poor. 
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