Re: glibc is lgpl'ed...

[John Hasler <john@dhh.gt.org>]

Navindra Umanee quotes:
> Netscape license:

> You may not:
> * modify, translate, reverse engineer, decompile, disassemble
>   (except to the extent applicable laws specifically prohibit such
>   restriction), or create derivative works based on the Software;

> LGPL license:

>   6. As an exception to the Sections above, you may also compile or
> link a "work that uses the Library" with the Library to produce a
> work containing portions of the Library, and distribute that work
> under terms of your choice, provided that the terms permit
> modification of the work for the customer's own use and reverse
> engineering for debugging such modifications.

>From the LGPL:
  5. A program that contains no derivative of any portion of the Library,
  but is designed to work with the Library by being compiled or linked with
  it, is called a "work that uses the Library".  Such a work, in isolation,
  is not a derivative work of the Library, and therefore falls outside the
  scope of this License.

Netscape as distributed contains no derivative of any portion of the
Library, but is designed to work with the Library by being compiled or
linked with it.  Thus it is outside the scope of the LGPL. 
-- 
John Hasler
john@dhh.gt.org (John Hasler)
Dancing Horse Hill
Elmwood, WI