Re: GnuTLS in Debian
On 2013-12-30 10:57:32 -0800, Russ Allbery wrote:
> Most upstream authors that I've spoken with don't believe that licensing
> crosses the shared library ABI boundary, that the shared OpenSSL library
> and the GPLv2 program that calls it remain separate works, and therefore
> there is no need for OpenSSL to meet the GPLv2 requirements since the
> binary as distributed is not a derivative work of both projects. Instead,
> the projects are combined at runtime by the end user, who doesn't have to
> meet any redistributability requirements of either license.
I suppose that this is allowed only if when compiling the GPLv2
program against OpenSSL, inline functions from OpenSSL (if there
are ones) are not included in the GPLv2 program.
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