Re: Bug#242666: libgcrypt7 is not supported

[Werner Koch <wk@g10code.com>]

On Wed, 14 Apr 2004 12:04:57 +0200, J H M Dassen (Ray) said:

> It's a side effect of our wide use of GnuTLS in order to avoid the issue of
> needing explicit exemption clauses in order to be able to redistribute
> works based on GPLed code that use the OpenSSL library.

I know and this is for sure a very Good Thing.

> libgcrypt directly but just happen to be linked to libraries that do. This
> is an artefact of how older versions of libtool used to work. Relibtoolising
> their source packages will contain the libgcrypt dependency to just those

Good to know.

  Werner