On Mon, Dec 08, 2003 at 03:09:06PM -0500, Brian T. Sniffen wrote: > 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.
I don't quite follow. It doesn't matter if extra restrictions are invoked or not; they're GPL-incompatible regardless. ("Don't use this software to make bombs" is GPL-incompatible, even if you don't happen to be using it to make bombs.) Could you link to the thread you're referencing? -- Glenn Maynard