supertuxkart non-redistributable?

[Joshua Root]

On 2020-8-25 12:18 , Ken Cunningham wrote:
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>> On Aug 24, 2020, at 7:13 PM, Joshua Root <jmr at macports.org
>> <mailto:jmr at macports.org>> wrote:
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>> Doesn't supertuxkart itself depend on curl?
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>> - Josh
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> Oh, yes, of course you are right. It does.
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> Is that what makes it non-distributable? Even though it doesn’t link
> against openssl?

Supertuxkart uses curl, curl uses openssl. They form a single program.

You thus have to follow the licenses of all the component parts, and
because of certain clauses in the GPL and the OpenSSL license, you
cannot distribute the combination at all.

<https://people.gnome.org/~markmc/openssl-and-the-gpl>

- Josh