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Re: GPL-licensed packages with depend-chain to OpenSSL



On Mon, Sep 06, 2004 at 02:16:00AM +0200, Claus F?rber wrote:
> It ultimatly does not make sense if you can choose one of several  
> libraries (with different licenses) that can be dynamically linked  
> against a program without recompiling it.
> 
> For example, you distribute a program linked against "libcurl". It works  
> with "libcurl-nossl", "libcurl-gnutls" -- but also "libcurl-ssl". Is it  
> linked against a GPL-incompatible library?

Careful, this is not an example of a case where the GPL does not apply
such restrictions. This is an example of a case where it's so damned
snarly that we haven't been able to come up with a good answer yet.

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