Re: GPL-licensed packages with depend-chain to OpenSSL
I need to revist this response.
> On Fri, Sep 10, 2004 at 04:38:04PM -0400, Glenn Maynard wrote:
> > So, you don't need an extreme example. It's perfectly valid for one to
> > take Emacs, link it against OpenSSL, and distribute binaries, as long as
> > OpenSSL doesn't accompany it.
On Fri, Sep 10, 2004 at 05:15:04PM -0400, Raul Miller wrote:
> In the U.S., at least, "linking it against OpenSSL" probably counts as
> "accompanying it", even if the binaries for the OpenSSL library do not
> appear on the same distribution media as the binaries for Emacs.
Ok, re-reading the GPL, I was wrong about this.
That said, you left some important conditions out of your "perfectly
valid" statement.
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Raul
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