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Re: FRR package in Debian violates the GPL licence



On Wed, 20 Mar 2019, David Given wrote:

they're all standalone modules being used in a library context.

Derived works of GPL code must be licensed under the GPL too.

Whether that code has one kind of object file header or another prepended to it is a low-level technical implementation detail which no lawyer I've dealt with seems to think has much bearing on this.

regards,
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