At 17:04 +0100 1999-05-30, Alan Cox wrote:
As a special exception, if you link this library with files compiled with a GNU compiler to produce an executable, this does not cause the resulting executable to be covered by the GNU General Public License. This exception does not however invalidate any other reasons why the executable file might be covered by the GNU General Public License. */ And note a -GNU- compiler. Not even another GPL compiler. You can't even use it with a competing free software product to produce non free binaries.
I see what this is, this is clearly copied from the libgcc.a special exception, without consideration of its results.
Have you discussed this with RMS?I'm certain he'd agree to relicense the it under LGPL, as was done with several other parts of glibc.
-- Joel Klecker (aka Espy) Debian GNU/Linux Developer <URL:mailto:jk@espy.org> <URL:mailto:espy@debian.org> <URL:http://web.espy.org/> <URL:http://www.debian.org/>