Erik Steffl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > the README.Debian for mutt says: > >SSL support >~~~~~~~~~~~ >SSL support has been disabled because debian cannot legally distribute >binaries of a GPLed program like mutt linked with a library with a >four clauses BSD-style license like the one of OpenSSL. >If you want SSL support you'll have to install the libssl09-dev package >and recompile the package yourself after editing debian/rules. >No source changes are needed. > > there are other *-ssl packages like apache ssl. why can't we have >mutt-ssl?
Apache isn't GPLed, but mutt is, hence why mutt has this problem but Apache doesn't. Somebody needs to convince either the OpenSSL developers to remove the advertising clause from their licence or the mutt developers to include a special exception for OpenSSL - preferably the former. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
