Re: LGPL v3 compatibilty

[Walter Landry <walter@geodynamics.org>]

Francesco Poli <frx@firenze.linux.it> wrote:
> On Sat, 14 Jul 2007 21:56:27 -0700 (PDT) Walter Landry wrote:
> 
> > Francesco Poli <frx@firenze.linux.it> wrote:
> > > On Mon, 2 Jul 2007 12:31:13 -0400 Anthony Towns wrote:
> > > 
> > > [...]
> > > > Note that _if_ we do stick to the view we've taken up until now,
> > > > when we have a LGPLv3 only glibc in the archive, we'll no longer
> > > > be able to distribute GPLv2-only compiled executables.
> > > 
> > > Unless the GPLv2-only work copyright holder(s) add(s) a special
> > > exception, similar to the one needed to link with the OpenSSL
> > > library, right?
> > > 
> > > This scenario is worrying me...  :-(
> > 
> > Is this going to be a problem for the kernel?  It is definitely not
> > going to go to GPLv3.
> 
> Is the Linux kernel linked with any LGPL'd work?
> AFAIUI, it is not, so no problem for the kernel.

Doesn't the kernel get its implementations for pow(), sqrt(),
printf(), and the rest of the C standard library from glibc, which is
LGPL'd?

Cheers,
Walter Landry
walter@geodynamics.org