On Sat, Feb 18, 2006 at 09:00:14PM +0000, David Woolley wrote: > > > > There is no compiled SSL version on fink for legal issues not > > technical ones (you can compile your own but you need to install the > > The legal reasons are probably that the OpenSSL licence has advertising > clauses, which require you to publicise its authors whenever you distribute > it, but the GPL licence forbids additional restrictions, so any attempt > to distribute the GPLed Lynx linked with OpenSSL voids the GPL licence, > and therefore makes the distribution in breach of copyright.
Some people assert that sections 2c is a requirement for the program to print the information that it is GPL'd when it is run. If one grants that view, that is advertising for the GPL. -- Thomas E. Dickey http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net _______________________________________________ Lynx-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lynx-dev
