Re: GPL-licensed packages with depend-chain to OpenSSL
* Andrew Suffield:
> Here's the snarly bit:
>
> Take a copy of curl, not built with ssl support. Build your GPLed
> application, linking it to this curl. There should unarguably be no
> problems here - everything involved is GPL-compatible.
>
> Now, go and build a copy of curl that is linked to openssl. Install
> that one instead, not touching the GPLed application.
>
> What just happened? What is going on here and where is the boundary?
Probably distribution. If you distribute just the OpenSSL of curl
version, it's rather clear that you intent that all applications
linking against curl also link against OpenSSL.
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