Bug#443451: balsa: Links to a GPL library and to OpenSSL

[Loïc Minier]

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        Hi,

 balsa links against OpenSSL and gmime2.2; it would be nice if gmime2.2
 allowed linking to OpenSSL as a special exception.

 Do you think gmime could be relicensed in such a way?

 From #443451:

On Fri, Sep 21, 2007, Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo wrote:
> Although balsa allows linking to OpenSSL, libgmime does not and it is
> GPL, not LGPL. So, balsa should not link to both gmime and openssl.

   Thanks,
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Loïc Minier