[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Brian T. Sniffen) writes: >> I don't know the details of who writes the SSL support for Konq or how >> it's done, nor do I have any machines with Konqueror on them in front >> of me right now, so I can't comment on that. > > 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.
And *that* wasn't done just to get around the legalities? -- Måns Rullgård [EMAIL PROTECTED]
