Re: GPL-3 & openssl: provide a -nossl variant for a library
> But Fedora, whose policies Richard Fontana helped to shape over the
> years, considers OpenSSL to be a library covered by the system library
> exception.
Afaict, Fedora does not consider every package that they offer to be
part of the operating system, whereas Debian does.
> In practice, the FSF seems to agree with this interpretation (for the
> GPLv2) because Microsoft Services for UNIX links GPL software such as
> GCC against a proprietary libc which is part of the same software
> package, and I don't think the FSF has even tried to stop them. (This
> libc is BSD-derived and not the Windows kernel or something like that,
> it is an intermediate layer.)
Have the FSF been made aware of this?
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