Re: lynx-dev Alert: this client does not contain support for HTTPS urls.

[Steven M. Sawczyn]

OK, how difficult would it be to create a commercial version of Lynx
which could be sold for $1.  Also, Explorer, although technically
commercial, is free.  Couldn't the same be done for Lynx, e.g. a
commercial copy created which everyone could downlaod from somewhere?

Steve

In article <address@hidden>,
Al Gilman <address@hidden> wrote:
>Well, the problem is not that simple.
>
>There is an oil-and-water incompatibility between the crypto
>libraries, whose distribution must be controlled (by US law), and
>the rest of Lynx, where the distribution must be full and free
>(per the terms of the GNU public license).  It is impossible to
>create a single compiled image (derived work) which is faithful
>to both sets of license terms which claim to govern the child of
>these two parents.
>
>IE and Netscape don't have the GPL obligations.  The US law is
>set up to deal with commercial, licensed software.  It is not set
>up to deal with GPL-ed, free software like Lynx, or vice versa.
>
>Al