[Gpg4win-devel] Adding openssl to gpg4win (as a dep for claws-mail)

[Marc Mutz]

On Tuesday October 16 2007 10:05, wwp wrote:
> Hello Bernhard,
>
> On Tue, 16 Oct 2007 09:59:26 +0200 Bernhard Reiter <bernhard at intevation.de> 
wrote:
> > On Tuesday 16 October 2007 09:08, wwp wrote:
> > > Are you referring to the QtSslSocket
> > > solution, which is commercial?
> >
> > All of QT4 under GNU GPL is commercial, just like GnuPG.
> > Do you mean proprietary?
>
> No, but I wonder how Qt4 links against OpenSSL, the only reference I
> could find is in that additional Qt solution, do you use/ship it at
> least, otherwise, why caring about this?
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Since v4.3, QtSslSocket is part of QtNetwork. It's a compile-time, but not a 
link-time dependency, afaict, and it seems to be an optional runtime 
dependency, and Qt has all sorts of GPL exceptions, one of them for the 
license of OpenSSL. So, by not including OpenSSL in the installer, I hope 
we're on the safe side here.

Thanks,
Marc

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