Re: psi: psi is gpl links to libqssl1 whose license should be modified lgpl therefore not allowed...
On Tue, Aug 06, 2002 at 11:32:35PM -0500, Chris Cheney wrote:
> psi uses a library, libqssl1 which is lgpl. However, since it links
> against openssl directly the license of libqssl1 should be a modified
> lgpl which would make it incompatible with gpl(?) So psi can not link
> to libqssl1. As far as I can tell that also makes libqssl1's reason for
> existence questionable since it doesn't actually work around the openssl
> license issue.
There's nothing illegitimate about linking LGPL'ed stuff with
OpenSSL. Consider libc, for example.
Cheers,
aj
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