openssl097a package retirement

[Tomas Mraz]

On Tue, 2007-11-13 at 10:34 -0500, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> Rex Dieter (rdieter at math.unl.edu) said: 
> > Tomas Mraz wrote:
> > 
> > > But I'm curious why HTTrack
> > > dlopens it and not directly links to it.
> > 
> > HTTrack is GPL, and openssl isn't GPL-compatible.
> 
> Right, but there's nothing that says upstream can't add an exception
> for OpenSSL.

Or even better they should use NSS library which is LGPL/GPL/MPL
trilicensed. With the help of the nss_compat_ossl library it is really
easy task to convert application which needs just SSL support.

-- 
Tomas Mraz
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