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Re: GPL and openssl. exception needed.

Alexander V. Lukyanov
Thu, 28 Apr 2005 12:25:05 -0700

On Wed, Apr 27, 2005 at 10:37:52PM +0200, Nočl Köthe wrote:
> will this exception to link lftp against openssl be added in the
> copyright/license in the next release?

The exception cannot be added to license, since lftp includes various code
(not mine) covered by GNU GPL. This question has been raised before.

The best thing to do is to port lftp to GNU TLS. Until it is done, you
have the possibility not to link with OpenSSL.

-- 
   Alexander.