Re: compatibility of OpenSSL and GPL'ed plugins
O Venres, 16 de Xullo de 2004 ás 01:11:52 +0200, Marco d'Itri escribía:
> Let's consider a program, released under a MIT/X11 license and linked
> with OpenSSL. Some GPL'ed plugins (which are dlopen'ed at run time) are
> distributed with the program.
> Is distribution of this package a GPL violation?
If they are distributed with the program (in the same tarball) and
implement important features of the program, the terms of the GPL would
apply to the whole package, so there would be a license incompatibility.
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Tarrío
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