David Woolley dixit: >> 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.
Except on operating systems where OpenSSL is part of the base system. //mirabile -- I believe no one can invent an algorithm. One just happens to hit upon it when God enlightens him. Or only God invents algorithms, we merely copy them. If you don't believe in God, just consider God as Nature if you won't deny existence. -- Coywolf Qi Hunt _______________________________________________ Lynx-dev mailing list Lynx-dev@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lynx-dev
