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Re: linking to libssl makes non free?



On Wed, Jun 15, 2005 at 02:24:44PM -0400, Jiann-Ming Su wrote:
> I was looking in the squid changelog and noticed the following:
> 
>   squid (2.5.5-4) unstable; urgency=low
> 
>     * debian/control
>       - Removed depdendecies on libssl-dev (linking GPL with SSL is not free)
>         (Closes: #251988)
> 
>     * debian/rules
>       - Removed --enable-ssl from configure
> 
> But, OpenSSL's FAQ seems to address this: 
> 
>   http://www.openssl.org/support/faq.html#LEGAL2
> 
> Anybody have any insight into this?  

http://www.gnome.org/~markmc/openssl-and-the-gpl.html

regards
fEnIo 

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