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Re: Supporting GPL/non-GPL (GnuTLS/OpenSSL) at the same time

From: Ralph Mitchell <ralphmitchell_at_gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2005 22:08:47 -0500

On 8/19/05, Richard Atterer <richard_at_2005.atterer.net> wrote:
>
> [snip]
> Imagine the case where someone wants to compile a libcurl app on his own
> Linux distro and then run the (dynamically linked) program on another
> distro. The standard libcurl package is installed on both machines. If his
> app is GPLed, he must be able to rely on libcurl-ssldummy.so being present
> on both systems.
> [snip]
>

Is that a reasonable expectation?? Compiling and dynamically linking
something on one distribution and expecting it to run on a different
distribution?? I wouldn't think so. I'm not an expert, but I wouldn't try it
or expect it to work as advertised...

Ralph Mitchell
Received on 2005-08-20