Re: LGPL v3 compatibilty
Walter Landry <walter@geodynamics.org> writes:
> 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?
No. The kernel is completely self-contained. Some code may of course
have been borrowed from glibc at some point, but that's irrelevant.
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Måns Rullgård
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