From: "Bernhard R. Link" <blink@informatik.uni-freiburg.de> > Where did the "unless that component itself accompanies the > executable" go? Is it somewhere else? It has been eliminated, intentionally. The rationale is to make things like Debian GNU/Solaris legal (currently a distribution can't contain both the Solaris C library and GPL binaries linked against the library, because of the clause you mention and the fact that Solaris' license is GPL-incompatible.