It's well known that OpenSSL is incompatible with the GPL. [1] Python (from 
2.6) is *always* linked against openssl, instead of waiting for you to "import 
ssl".

Doesn't this mean it's now impossible (rather, a license violation) to 
distribute a GPL'd python program (or to use a GPL'd library in your python 
program)? This seems like a problem...

Thanks to Ulrik Sverdrup  
(http://lists.debian.org/debian-python/2011/03/msg00082.html) for pointing this 
out...

James

[1] http://people.gnome.org/~markmc/openssl-and-the-gpl.html
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