Re: XFree86 license difficulties
Scripsit Ken Arromdee <arromdee@rahul.net>
> On Mon, 2 Feb 2004, Glenn Maynard wrote:
> > Huh? "unless that component itself accompanies the executable". Debian
> > can't use the OS exception.
> If that means what it appears to mean, how could the OS exemption have ever
> been meant to be useful at all?
It is meant to allow third-party distribution of binaries linked with
the C libraries of proprietary Unices.
> the OS exemption can only have any effect when you distribute the
> component with the executable anyway.
No, read it again. It says that you does *not* have to distribute the
component or its source, even if is necessary to reproduce the binary
you're distributing.
--
Henning Makholm "Also, the letters are printed. That makes the task
of identifying the handwriting much more difficult."
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