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Re: OpenSSL license incompatibility



On Wed, Jul 31, 2002 at 12:56:49AM +0200, Hendrik Sattler wrote:
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> Am Dienstag, 30. Juli 2002 02:24 schrieb Daniel Schepler:
> > Something has been bothering me about the KDE packages...  The OpenSSL
> > license is incompatible with the GPL, but Konqueror et al use the
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> Can you actually tell me, where it is incompatible? If GPL is that 
> restriktive, then why is the software shipped with it called "free"?
> 
> HS

The OpenSSL license is well known not to be compatible with GPL it is
even stated as such on the OpenSSL website.  The part we are discussing
is whether it is a problem for kded_kssld.so and kcm_crypto.so.

Chris



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