On 2020-8-25 12:18 , Ken Cunningham wrote: > > >> On Aug 24, 2020, at 7:13 PM, Joshua Root <[email protected] >> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >> >> > >> Doesn't supertuxkart itself depend on curl? >> >> - Josh > > Oh, yes, of course you are right. It does. > > Is that what makes it non-distributable? Even though it doesn’t link > against openssl?
Supertuxkart uses curl, curl uses openssl. They form a single program. You thus have to follow the licenses of all the component parts, and because of certain clauses in the GPL and the OpenSSL license, you cannot distribute the combination at all. <https://people.gnome.org/~markmc/openssl-and-the-gpl> - Josh
