Re: [hpoj-devel] Re: Bug#147430: hpoj: Linking against OpenSSL licensing modification (GPL)

[David P. <pa...@rc...>]

Joe Piolunek wrote:
> xojpanel is linked with OpenSSL only indirectly, through libptal. There is no 
> direct link. Does that matter?
From a strict interpretation of the GPL, it does matter, because it looks
at the derived "work" as the entire process in memory with all shared
libraries linked in.  In practice I tend to be a bit more relaxed than
this personally, but I'm doing this to keep the Debian folks happy.

Actually, for all practical purposes there's the additional level of
indirection to libcrypto via libsnmp.  I only had to explicitly link
libptal with "-lcrypto" because libsnmp depends on libcrypto but for
some reason wasn't itself linked with "-lcrypto" to formalize that
dependency.  IIRC you were the one who pointed this out in the first
place.

David