Re: Who needs libcurl3?

[Goswin von Brederlow <brederlo@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de>]

Peter Samuelson <peter@p12n.org> writes:

> [Don Armstrong]
>> All that needs to happen is that GPLed packages without an OpenSSL
>> linking exception either need to:
>> 
>>   1) Get a linking exception.
>>   2) Stop linking with OpenSSL.
>
>     3) For indirect dependencies: make sure you're only using the bits
>        of the (for example) libcurl ABI which work whether or not it is
>        compiled against openssl.  In that case it's really hard to
>        argue you're "linking to openssl".

But one can argue that this needs an openssl free libcurl to be
correctly distributable.

Which was the suggestion to begin with I think.

MfG
        Goswin