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Re: Who needs libcurl3? (was libcurl3-dev: A development package linked again gnutls needed)



On Sun, 17 Jul 2005 the mental interface of
sean finney told:

> On Sun, Jul 17, 2005 at 08:21:00PM +0200, Elimar Riesebieter wrote:
> > I don't see a gpl'd alternative to curl for internet streaming. I am
> > thinking about to build moc --without-curl then :(
> 
> or you could always contact the author and inform them of their
> self-inflicted license violation.  in my experience, many authors
> don't realize the licensing problem and are more than willing to
> relicense/dual license/add exceptions for stuff like openssl.
> 
> > What about the fbi-package, raptor-utils-package and others who are using
> > libcurl3 as well?
> 
> if they are strict gpl and use libcurl, you should report bugs against them.

apt-get remove --purge libssl0.9.7 gives me tons of packages. Just
an estimation: We need to repack half of all packages then?

Elimar


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