On Thu, 11 Nov 2004 20:12:42 -0200 cascardo@minaslivre.org wrote:
> One could claim that php4 is part of the operating system, just like
> they do with OpenSSL. That is nuts!
I agree with you that claiming PHP is part of the OS is a bit hard...
But anyway, Debian cannot ever use the OS exception, since Debian
distributes the "operating system" as well.
The GPL-2 (section 3.) reads:
| However, as a special exception, the source code distributed need not
| include anything that is normally distributed (in either source or
| binary form) with the major components (compiler, kernel, and so on)
| of the operating system on which the executable runs, unless that
| component itself accompanies the executable. ^^^^^^^^^^^
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
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