Re: Another update of GNU TLS bindings

[Florian Weimer]

Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes:

>     Not on top of my head, but could you please explain why you think this
>     is a problem?
>
> The GPL does not permit linking with OpenSSL.

Hmm, the GPL does not permit linking with OpenSSL und *redistributing*
the resulting binary, does it?

>     Several network related GNU projects will be inadequate, to the point
>     of being useless and even dangerous to use, if they don't support
>     crypto; projects that come to mind, other than emacs, are adns,
>     httptunnel, mailman, and zebra.
>
> What has that got to do with wget and OpenSSL?
> I see no connection.  Do these programs use OpenSSL?

At least Mailman doesn't use it directly, only directly via the web
server under which it is running.