--- a/ck_ssl.c
+++ b/ck_ssl.c
@@ -1529,82 +1529,6 @@
     debug(F110,"OpenSSL Library",SSLeay_version(SSLEAY_CFLAGS),0);
     debug(F110,"OpenSSL Library",SSLeay_version(SSLEAY_PLATFORM),0);
 
-    /* The following test is suggested by Richard Levitte */
-    /* if (((OPENSSL_VERSION_NUMBER ^ SSLeay()) & 0xffffff0f) */
-    /* Modified by Adam Friedlander for OpenSSL >= 1.0.0 */
-    if (OPENSSL_VERSION_NUMBER > SSLeay()
-         || ((OPENSSL_VERSION_NUMBER ^ SSLeay()) & COMPAT_VERSION_MASK)
-#ifdef OS2
-/* DG 2024-08-05: Not sure what the point of this was. Presumably the goal was
- *    to prevent updated OpenSSL libraries from being used, though why you'd
- *    want to do that I'm not sure. Might have been to do with how Kermit 95s
- *    SSH code was built way back in the early 2000s I guess. Today Kermit 95s
- *    use of OpenSSL is largely the same as how C-Kermit uses it on other
- *    platforms so I don't see any reason to treat it differently here.
-         || ckstrcmp(OPENSSL_VERSION_TEXT,(char *)SSLeay_version(SSLEAY_VERSION),-1,1)
-*/
-#endif /* OS2 */
-         ) {
-        ssl_installed = 0;
-        debug(F111,"OpenSSL Version does not match.  Built with",
-               SSLeay_version(SSLEAY_VERSION),SSLEAY_VERSION_NUMBER);
-        printf("?OpenSSL libraries do not match required version:\r\n");
-        printf("  . C-Kermit built with %s\r\n",OPENSSL_VERSION_TEXT);
-        printf("  . Version found  %s\r\n",SSLeay_version(SSLEAY_VERSION));
-#ifdef OPENSSL_100
-	printf("  OpenSSL versions 1.0.0 or newer must be the same\r\n");
-	printf("  major and minor version number, and Kermit may not\r\n");
-	printf("  be used with a version of OpenSSL older than the one\r\n");
-	printf("  supplied at compile time.\r\n");
-#else
-        printf("  OpenSSL versions prior to 1.0.0 must be the same.\r\n");
-#endif /* OPENSSL_100 */
-
-	s = "R";
-#ifdef SOLARIS
-	printf("  Set CD_LIBRARY_PATH for %s.\r\n",OPENSSL_VERSION_TEXT);
-	s = " Or r";
-#endif	/* SOLARIS */
-
-#ifdef HPUX
-	printf("  Set SHLIB_PATH for %s.\r\n",OPENSSL_VERSION_TEXT);
-	s = " Or r";
-#endif	/* HPUX */
-
-#ifdef AIX
-	printf("  Set LIBPATH for %s.\r\n",OPENSSL_VERSION_TEXT);
-	s = " Or r";
-#endif	/* AIX */
-
-#ifdef LINUX
-	printf("  Set LD_LIBRARY_PATH for %s.\r\n",OPENSSL_VERSION_TEXT);
-	s = " Or r";
-#endif	/* LINUX */
-
-        printf(" %sebuild C-Kermit from source on this computer to make \
-versions agree.\r\n",s);
-
-#ifdef KTARGET
-	{
-	    char * s;
-	    s = KTARGET;
-	    if (!s) s = "";
-	    if (!*s) s = "(unknown)";
-	    printf("  C-Kermit makefile target: %s\r\n",s);
-	}
-#endif	/* KTARGET */
-        printf("  Or if that is what you did then try to find out why\r\n");
-        printf("  the program loader (image activator) is choosing a\r\n");
-        printf("  different OpenSSL library than the one specified in \
-the build.\r\n\r\n");
-        printf("  All SSL/TLS features disabled.\r\n\r\n");
-        bleep(BP_FAIL);
-#ifdef SSLDLL
-        ck_ssl_unloaddll();
-        ck_crypto_unloaddll();
-#endif /* SSLDLL */
-        return;
-    }
 #endif /* OS2ONLY */
 
     /* init things so we will get meaningful error messages
