Re: GPL-licensed packages with depend-chain to OpenSSL
* Daniel Stenberg:
> On Thu, 12 Aug 2004, Daniel Stenberg wrote:
>
>> If this a huuuuge can of worms or am I just plain wrong?
>
> Ok, don't hit me.
>
> I did another google and I've found enough references on the topic
> "openssl is PART of the OS" etc so no need to say anything else.
I thought that for quite some time too, but the exception text reads:
| However, as a special exception, the source code distributed need not
| include anything that is normally distributed (in either source or
| binary form) with the major components (compiler, kernel, and so on)
| of the operating system on which the executable runs, unless that
| component itself accompanies the executable.
This is necessary as a safeguard against software hoarding.
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