On Mon, Jun 08, 2015 at 12:01:20PM -0700, Ian Zimmerman wrote: > mutt is GPL. Apparently there is some license incompatibility between > GPL and the openssl license which prohibits linking mutt with openssl, > unless there is an exception for this specific situation. I have not > studied the legalities in detail because IANAL, but I see that there is > a configure option to link with openssl. Has an appropriate exception > been granted to mutt, then?
I don't have any specific information, but FWIW, the RHEL packages seem to link against OpenSSL (based on checking a RHEL5 system and a CentOS 7 system). I do see the EL6 package seems to be linked against gnutls instead possibly (as does a Debian 5 system I looked at). As best I can tell, FreeBSD ports also links against OpenSSL, though maybe the ports process means it's not being distributed (I didn't check the binary package, but assume it's the same). I would think that if this was a problem, it would have come up before. w
