On Sep 10, 2004, at 09:08, Raul Miller wrote:
On Sep 9, 2004, at 23:36, Glenn Maynard wrote:The GPL requires that all derived works be entirely available under theterms of the GPL.On Fri, Sep 10, 2004 at 08:35:59AM -0400, Anthony DeRobertis wrote:Yes, but OpenSSL wouldn't be a derived work of the GPL program (it can't be, because it was created before the GPL program).Irrelevant: The derived works in question isn't OpenSSL, the question is about the program which includes both the GPLed program and the OpenSSL library.
Please read the start of this subthread; the point was about distributing as _source_ and compiling on the user's machine. The program in source form does not include OpenSSL.
Under GPL Section 2, derivative work is quite important.