Re: Debian OpenSolaris port, exchange with Sun folks in webforum/MailingList
On Wed, Sep 07, 2005 at 08:32:09AM +0200, Lionel Elie Mamane wrote:
> Wouldn't the C library, of all libs, fall under the "normally
> distributed with the major components of the operating system on which
> the executable runs" clause of the GPL?
Irrelevant. In addition to what Peter said, you should see this clause
in its historical context: when the GPL was written, there was no viable
free operating system; if you wanted to use Free Software, you had to
run it on a non-free operating system. This is an 'escape clause' to
make that possible -- without this clause, you wouldn't even have been
allowed to run emacs on AIX, or so. Which is not the intention.
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