[Pkg-openssl-devel] Processed: Re: Bug#623596: mumble: Problem with the import certificats

[Kurt Roeckx]

On Wed, May 04, 2011 at 01:15:18PM +0300, Modestas Vainius wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> On antradienis 26 Balandis 2011 20:47:45 Thorvald Natvig wrote:
> > That being said, Qt also supports explicit compile-time linking to
> > libssl and libcrypto, which avoids issues like this one and also ensures
> > that libqt4-network shows up as a reverse dependency for openssl. If
> > nothing else, the runtime libraries for OpenSSL should be added as a
> > recommends: for the libqt4-network package. But in todays crypto-heavy
> > world, I can't really think of a good reason not to just link it. Among
> > other things, Qt's web widgets (and URL classes) will not support https
> > without libssl/libcrypto.
> 
> OpenSSL license is THE reason. Or pure-GPL apps won't be able to link against 
> libQtNetwork which is unacceptable.

I think dynamicly loading instead of linking doesn't change this
license problem.


Kurt