[sldev] GPLed submissions

[Jesse Nesbitt]

Probably only for curl, but I haven't studied the source
I believe that it would depend on libcurl's licensing

On 3/17/07, Aidan Thornton <makosoft at googlemail.com> wrote:
>
> On 3/17/07, Jason Giglio <gigstaggart at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > OpenSSL is the biggest other sticking point if you don't consider
> sound
> > > critical.
> >
> > Sorry to reply to myself, but GNU TLS is the most likely candidate to
> > replace OpenSSL.
> >
> > It is LGPL and does pretty much everything OpenSSL does.
> >
> Does Second Life use OpenSSL directly, or is it only used for curl? If
> it's the latter, it looks like we can just compile curl against GNU
> TLS instead.
>
> (Hmmm... interesting thought. If you dynamically link a GPLed program
> against the GNU TLS version of libcurl, then someone else runs it
> using a libcurl that's compiled with OpenSSL, are they infringing the
> GPL?)
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--Jesse
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