Maximilian Reiss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Am Dienstag, 30. Juli 2002 02:24 schrieb Daniel Schepler: > > Something has been bothering me about the KDE packages... The OpenSSL > > license is incompatible with the GPL, but Konqueror et al use the > > library. I just checked and, indeed, I found that libssl.so.0.9.6 and > > libqt-mt.so.3.0.4 are linked into the same address space (in the > > kio_http process forked off by kdeinit). I was wondering whether, > > because of this, the kdelibs packages should have SSL support > > disabled. > > No gpl violation. KDE does _not_ link against libssl. > > Max
It doesn't matter exactly how the linking is done; even if kio_http loads libssl dynamically at run time, that counts the same as linking in the library. See <URL:http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#MereAggregation> (and #GPLAndPlugins). Also, as somebody else pointed out, kcm_crypto _is_ linked against -lssl. -- Daniel Schepler "Please don't disillusion me. I [EMAIL PROTECTED] haven't had breakfast yet." -- Orson Scott Card
