Re: Who needs libcurl3?
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
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