Re: Plugins, libraries, licenses and Debian

["Brian T.Sniffen" <bts@alum.mit.edu>]

Glenn Maynard <g_deb@zewt.org> writes:

> On Mon, Dec 08, 2003 at 03:09:06PM -0500, Brian T. Sniffen wrote:
>> 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.
>
> I don't quite follow.  It doesn't matter if extra restrictions are
> invoked or not; they're GPL-incompatible regardless.  ("Don't use this
> software to make bombs" is GPL-incompatible, even if you don't happen to
> be using it to make bombs.)
>
> Could you link to the thread you're referencing?

Sure.  It starts with 

http://lists.debian.org/debian-kde/2002/debian-kde-200207/msg00298.html

-Brian