On 6/18/06, Lars Wirzenius <liw@liw.iki.fi> wrote:
The OpenSSL license is incompatible with the GPL. A GPL application needs an addition to its license that allows linking with OpenSSL. Some application authors do that and then Debian (or anyone) can distribute the apps (in a binary form); some don't, or haven't yet, and those apps Debian doesn't distribute.
The other alternative is to port it to another SSL library, like Mozilla NSS or GnuTLS. Most of the time the SSL code is not terribly complicated and the port is fairly straight-forward. Have a nice day, -- Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog@gmail.com> http://svana.org/kleptog/