Re: Plugins, libraries, licenses and Debian

[bts@alum.mit.edu (Brian T. Sniffen)]

mru@kth.se (Måns Rullgård) writes:

> bts@alum.mit.edu (Brian T. Sniffen) writes:
>
>>> I don't know the details of who writes the SSL support for Konq or how
>>> it's done, nor do I have any machines with Konqueror on them in front
>>> of me right now, so I can't comment on that.
>>
>> Ah, found it -- Debian KDE list, late July 2002: Konqueror doesn't
>> link against OpenSSL.  It runs a separate process (kcm_crypto, it
>> looks like), which links against openssl... but does so in a way that
>> *doesn't* invoke OpenSSL's advertising clause.  Thus, the GPL
>> prohibition on additional restrictions isn't invoked, and what KDE's
>> doing is fine.
>
> And *that* wasn't done just to get around the legalities?

Oh, sure it was -- but to get around the legality of obnoxiously
having to advertise for others, as opposed to the legality of sharing
and sharing alike.  If Eric Young advertised all OpenSSL-using
software I'd be a lot more tolerant of its license.

-Brian