Le vendredi 02 septembre 2005 à 13:45 -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez a écrit : > On Fri, Sep 02, 2005 at 07:07:02PM +0200, Jean-Philippe Garcia Ballester wrote: > > Hi, > > I heard OpenSSL's license is incompatible with GPL. Does this apply to > > binary package only or both binary and source package? > > The thing is, the library I'm packaging can use both libcrypto (from > > OpenSSL) and libgcrypt, using ifdef. The binary package is built with > > libgcrypt support only. > > Should I remove OpenSSL support in the source, or is it okay to leave > > it? > > free, I simply ignore it. I believe that the same would apply to your > package. If you are only linking to ligcrypt (regardless of the code's > ability to link to alternate implementations), it is main and so you are > OK. True. You can even have OpenSSL support in the binary if, for example, the application can use either libgcrypt or libcrypto depending on a command-line switch, dlopen()ing either of the libraries. This way, it wouldn't really require OpenSSL to run. -- .''`. Josselin Mouette /\./\ : :' : josselin.mouette@ens-lyon.org `. `' joss@debian.org `- Debian GNU/Linux -- The power of freedom
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