Re: Plugins, libraries, licenses and Debian

[mru@kth.se (Måns Rullgård)]

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?

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