[Python-Dev] GPL'd python code vs Python2.6 linked against OpenSSL

[James Y Knight]

It's well known that OpenSSL is incompatible with the GPL. [1] Python (from 2.6) is *always* linked against openssl, instead of waiting for you to "import ssl".

Doesn't this mean it's now impossible (rather, a license violation) to distribute a GPL'd python program (or to use a GPL'd library in your python program)? This seems like a problem...

Thanks to Ulrik Sverdrup  (http://lists.debian.org/debian-python/2011/03/msg00082.html) for pointing this out...

James

[1] http://people.gnome.org/~markmc/openssl-and-the-gpl.html