Re: XFree86 license difficulties
Scripsit Ken Arromdee <arromdee@rahul.net>
> On 3 Feb 2004, Henning Makholm wrote:
> > > 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.
> But if you link the binary with the C library of a proprietary Unix (and it's
> not dynamic linking), you are distributing the component with the executable
No I'm not. I can perfectly well give away a staically linked binary
without also giving a copy of the libc.a file is linked with. The fact
that *parts* of the library go into the binary cannot be used to
recover a libc.a that the recipient of my binary can use to recompile
from scratch. Those parts are not even easily identifyable in the binary.
--
Henning Makholm "Ambiguous cases are defined as those for which the
compiler being used finds a legitimate interpretation
which is different from that which the user had in mind."
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