Fwd: KMail/GnuPG always report problems with signed S/MIME

[Ingo Klöcker]

On Wednesday 21 July 2004 01:10, bsmaillist at skynet.be wrote:
> On Tuesday 20 July 2004 17:28, Werner Koch wrote:
> > On Tue, 20 Jul 2004 16:27:26 +0200, bsmaillist  said:
> > > So we have GnuPG excluding all PKCS#11 cards and we have KMail
> > > 1.7 excluding
> >
> > Sorry, there are no pkcs#11 cards.  pkcs#11 is merely an API
> > between an application and a driver - not with the card.  The host
> > application must be aware of the card's application.
> >
> > The proprietary pkcs#11 drivers try to translate from their
> > proprietary card application to something, say, Mozilla can cope
> > with. For legal reasons we (GPLed code, e.g. gnupg, KDE) can't link
> > to such a driver anyway.
>
> I thought that GPL allows exceptions if you want to link a non-GPL
> module with the GPL'ed software:
> http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#LinkingWithGPL If my
> interpretation is correct this would apply to KMail / GnuPG using
> PKCS#11 modules, regardless of these modules' licenses. This
> exception would of course have to be added to the KMail license.

You can pretty much forget about this. KMail's code has been touched by 
too many people. Some of them are no longer reachable. Unfortunately 
this makes it legally impossible to make changes to the license.

Regards,
Ingo
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