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

[Westley Martínez]

On Wed, 2011-03-09 at 18:20 -0500, James Y Knight wrote:
> 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

Is it legal to distribute GPL programs that use the Win32 API?