libgnutls-openssl and real openssl conflict

[Matthew Woehlke]

Chris Adams wrote:
> The flip side of that is that libgnutls-openssl is GPLv3+, which means
> that anything under GPLv2-only or any other non-GPLv3-compatible license
> may not be able to use it.  I'm not sure, since it implements somebody
> else's interface; can anything using the OpenSSL library API be
> considered a derived work of libgnutls-openssl (by virtue of linking)?

My understanding is that public API's are not subject to copyright, 
however IANAL :-).

-- 
Matthew
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