[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Måns Rullgård) writes: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Brian T. Sniffen) writes: > >>> I don't know the details of who writes the SSL support for Konq or how >>> it's done, nor do I have any machines with Konqueror on them in front >>> of me right now, so I can't comment on that. >> >> Ah, found it -- Debian KDE list, late July 2002: Konqueror doesn't >> link against OpenSSL. It runs a separate process (kcm_crypto, it >> looks like), which links against openssl... but does so in a way that >> *doesn't* invoke OpenSSL's advertising clause. Thus, the GPL >> prohibition on additional restrictions isn't invoked, and what KDE's >> doing is fine. > > And *that* wasn't done just to get around the legalities?
Oh, sure it was -- but to get around the legality of obnoxiously having to advertise for others, as opposed to the legality of sharing and sharing alike. If Eric Young advertised all OpenSSL-using software I'd be a lot more tolerant of its license. -Brian
