Debarshi 'Rishi' Ray (debarshi.ray(a)gmail.com) said:
I am afraid you got me wrong here. I did not use the term
"compatible"
to mean license compatibility. I wanted to know whether an application
which dlopens libssl.so.0.9.8 could safely use libssl.so.0.9.8b
instead, without causing any API/ABI breakage?
'Not necessarily'. It's why the soname changes.
Bill