Re: mutt license and SSL libraries

2015-06-17 Thread Ian Zimmerman
On 2015-06-17 02:40 -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: > https://people.gnome.org/~markmc/openssl-and-the-gpl.html > http://www.mutt.org/doc/manual/manual-1.html#ss1.6 Thanks for the pointers. Bob> Debian's mutt packaging links against gnutls. I should perhaps have made clear that I was aware of thi

Re: mutt license and SSL libraries

2015-06-17 Thread Suvayu Ali
On Wed, Jun 17, 2015 at 02:40:18AM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: > > > Of course I know that it doesn't matter if I build binaries just for my > > personal use and don't distribute them, but in fact I build debian > > packages which are available over unauthenticated http, because I want a > > quick wa

Re: mutt license and SSL libraries

2015-06-17 Thread Bob Proulx
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. Here is a nice summary of the issues: https://people.gnome.org/~mark

Re: mutt license and SSL libraries

2015-06-08 Thread Will Yardley
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 leg

mutt license and SSL libraries

2015-06-08 Thread Ian Zimmerman
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 opt