Re: LYNX-DEV SSL for Lynx 2.8

[T.E.Dickey]

> RMS intentions appear, to me, to be to ensure that there is no limit 
> on a recipient redistributing, and were phrased in terms of patents.  If 
> hooks were not considered armaments, I would probably consider the partial 
> source code distributable, but binaries for use only by the (legal) person 
> compiling it, but that would be based on an argument that the disabled 
> hooks were documentation and enabling them was the creation of a 
> derived work.  Although I'm not sure if ghostscript has been distributed 
> under the Gnu licence since the LZW licence started being enforced, it 
> does have a licence with some similarities and does have LZW hooks in it 
> (GIF type compression). 
But (without adding SSLeay library), the binaries also do not have encryption.
As it stands, the ifdef's are not much more than comments, since no code is
generated.

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Thomas E. Dickey
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