[Python-Dev] PEP 466 (round 2): Network security enhancements for Python 2.7

[Ned Deily]

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