Rob- Thanks for your email. When I initially started using OpenSSL with the Gaim-Encryption plugin, I had no plans of distributing binaries of it, and thus I wasn't overly worried about the license issues associated with OpenSSL. I hadn't revisited those issues before releasing the precompiled Windows version, and as you point out, it violates Gaim's license. I've pulled those binaries from the Sourceforge site.
I had already been planning on switching the crypto library used by the plugin- I'm hoping to find the time in the next few weeks to do that change. Until then, I plan on leaving the current source distribution of the plugin on the website. If you feel that there is a GPL violation with the source distribution, please let me know, but I don't believe that that is the case. I am less sure of the legal situation with regards to the Fedora Gaim-Encryption RPM. It is linked against the OpenSSL libraries distributed with RedHat, and distributed in its own RPM (not packaged together with Gaim). As such, I suppose that it depends on your interpretation of the "OS exemption" clause, and perhaps other subtleties that I would rather not argue. It will become moot as soon as I can find a few days to re-code some parts of the plugin. -Bill
