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Re: openssl and GPL



On Tue, Apr 23, 2002 at 09:45:32AM +1000, Brian May wrote:
> Thanks for everyones responses.
> 
> On Mon, Apr 22, 2002 at 11:09:21AM -0500, Steve Langasek wrote:
> > It is OK to create GPL binaries linked against OpenSSL and compiled
> > for Debian platforms, and distribute them outside of Debian.  But the
> > wording of the GPL indicates you could never distribute those binaries
> > with Debian -- not even selling them on different CDs in a multi-CD set,
> > I think.
> 
> What if a program (lets say it has a new bsd license) is linked against
> both libreadline and openssl. Would this be ok?

This would link libreadline with openssl and that isn't ok.

Jeroen Dekkers
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