On Tue, Oct 15, 2002 at 04:15:45PM -0700, Jeremy C. Reed wrote: > On Tue, 15 Oct 2002, Joel Baker wrote: > > > a GPL compatible license); this question is solely about linking against > > the libraries which are build from the non-third-party source found in > > the NetBSD souce tree. > > Do you have any specific examples of this? > > I may be misunderstanding but has there ever been a GNU license that > doesn't allow linking the GNU software against anything? > > (Because I know a lot of GPL'd code uses closed-source libraries on > proprietary systems.) > > Jeremy C. Reed > ................................................... > BSD software, documentation, resources, news... > http://bsd.reedmedia.net/ Please see the archives of debian-legal, both on the current thread for this and past threads regarding linking GPL binaries and non-GPL-compatible licenses (and what constitutes the latter). In short.... "Yes, such things have occured". The OpenSSL fracas is just one of the more memorable cases. There have been a number of others. -- *************************************************************************** Joel Baker System Administrator - lightbearer.com lucifer@lightbearer.com http://users.lightbearer.com/lucifer/
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