Re: Bug#154974: ITP: pt -- GTK+ tool for viewing/managing print jobs in CUPS

[Walter Landry <wlandry@ucsd.edu>]

Jeff Licquia <licquia@debian.org> wrote:
> Probably no more or less than, say, any program on your system is a
> derived work of glibc.  (I'm assuming here that cups-pt links against
> libcups to do its magic.)  Note also that clause about not being
> required to carry the exceptions forward; that likely means that linking
> to libcups is fine as long as libcups doesn't use either of the two
> exceptions.

Programs that link against glibc ARE derived works of glibc.  It is
just that glibc is licensed under the LGPL.

Regards,
Walter Landry
wlandry@ucsd.edu