libgnutls-openssl and real openssl conflict

[Tom "spot" Callaway]

On Tue, 2008-08-26 at 18:30 -0400, David A. Wheeler wrote:
> Any program that links to libgnutls-openssl that has GPL'ed components
> probably CANNOT be legally linked to OpenSSL.

For what it is worth, we consider OpenSSL a system library (aka, a
"major component"), as does the FSF.

>From GPLv2:

  However, as a special exception, the source code distributed need not
include 
  anything that is normally distributed (in either source or binary form) with the 
  major components (compiler, kernel, and so on) of the operating system on 
  which the executable runs, unless that component itself accompanies the 
  executable.

Thus, we're not concerned about OpenSSL and GPL incompatibility.

~spot