On Tue, Oct 15, 2002 at 05:19:50PM -0700, Jeremy C. Reed wrote: > On Tue, 15 Oct 2002, Joel Baker wrote: > > > > Do you have any specific examples of this? > > > 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). > > I read that one thread. I don't see specific example. > > Hmmm. I wonder about GNU Emacs being used on operating systems years > before needed GNU libraries even existed. (I guess I should read that old > license in my old GNU Emacs comb-bound manual on my shelf.) Note that the GPL has exception clauses for non-compatible 'system libraries' that aren't distributed with the GPL code, which seems intended to cover this. Whether they also cover things such as Debian is part of why I emailed RMS for clarification. > This is quite confusing, since FSF code itself is provided for using with > non-GPL'd libraries. Yup. Because they know that if they want their stuff to be used, they pretty much have to... > Even GLIBC used old 4.4BSD code (and headers). Note: 4.4BSD was retroactively relicensed to no longer have the advertising clause in 1999 by UCB. Thus, this would be kosher. FreeBSD is in a similar boat (modulo some pieces that aren't theirs); NetBSD, however, still has a license derived from the old BSD license. > > 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. > > I don't see how this applies to the OpenSSL issue where some code was not > really open source. Because the GPL (at least, 2 and 2.1) is equally incompatible with a 4-clause BSD license. > Do you have any specific examples of a problem with linking against > the libraries? See above. > Isn't the GPL fun? Don't even go there. -- *************************************************************************** Joel Baker System Administrator - lightbearer.com lucifer@lightbearer.com http://users.lightbearer.com/lucifer/
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