Re: [Evolution] IMAP/SSL, IMAP folders, and a couple other things

[Jeffrey Stedfast <fejj helixcode com>]

Yes, it still violates the GPL - the non-GPL lib being on the system
doesn't automatically make it "A-OK" for a GPL program to link to it.

Jeff

On Thu, 7 Sep 2000, Matthew Harrell wrote:
> : We'd like to do IMAP/SSL (actually, SSL for all protocols) in the
> future
> : but we've got to find a suitable library. OpenSSL is out of the
> question as
> : it is not compatable with the GPL.
>
> Does it actually violate the GPL to link with a library if it already
> exists
> on the system?  I would think you could set it up to look for an link
> with an
> SSL library (whatever that may be) and just use whatever's there.  To
> distribute the compiled binary I can understand but there are numerous
> programs like mutt, fetchmail, etc which are all GPL'd (I think) and all
> of
> them make use of an existing SSL library if it's a compiled in feature.
>
> -- 
>   Matthew Harrell                          Any sufficiently advanced bug
> is
>   Bit Twiddlers, Inc.                       indistinguishable from a
> feature.
>   mharrell bittwiddlers com
>
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