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Hello,
It is easy to enable the switch --with-ssl (or whatever is needed) to
build an https enabled version of htdig. >That version would probably
need to use OpenSSL in some form or other.However, htdig is GPL for
version 1.6, LGPL for versions 2.3.0. I have not checked earlier versions.
OpensSSL, which comes dually licensed, has a rather 'sttange' license,
in the sense that GPL'ed software cannot be linked against it.
Please see
http://www.gnome.org/~markmc/openssl-and-the-gpl.html
for more information
Also see
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?archive=no&bug=163583
for a similar issue (Cadaver being linked against the openssl libs)
Since I do not wish that the HTDig Project to have more probs that they
do already, I will therefore not build packages that link against the
OpenSSL librarirres. If you want to do that, that will probably work
fine, but the legal issues will be your to solve.
Sorry
Robert Ribnitz
HTDig Debian Maintainer
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