[Date Prev][Date Next] [Thread Prev][Thread Next] [Date Index] [Thread Index]

Re: [Fwd: Re: Debian based GNU/Solaris: pilot program]



On Wed, Nov 02, 2005 at 09:27:04PM -0800, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote:
> Erast Benson <erast@gnusolaris.org> writes:

>> Native GNU libc do not make any difference since it is a part of
>> "system runtime" which includes: kernel, libc, compiler, etc (as
>> per GPL).

> You use these quotation marks in the most amazing way.  The GPL does
> not speak of the "system runtime", and it does not say that those
> things don't count.  It says the don't count IF you don't ship the
> binary together with them.

Which, for full clarity here, this port would be doing (shipping the
GPL-covered binaries together with the GPL-incompatible libc).

-- 
Lionel



Reply to: