Re: LICENSES [was: Re: Have you seen this?]
Craig Sanders <cas@taz.net.au>
> the GPL explicitly makes an exception for libraries which are included
> with the operating system itself.
Not quite so - it makes an exception for binaries that are NOT
included with that operating system itself.
Debian ships a large number of GPL'd binaries that are linked against
LGPL'd libraries (chiefly libc). This practice is not compatible with
what Debian says in the statement that started this thread - and I too
think such incompatibility may reasonably be called "cheating".
(Not that it's really relevant, but IMHO Debian's practice is right
and the statement wrong.)
--Arnt
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