'GPL encumbrance problems' (jdow)
Ralf Corsepius
rc040203 at freenet.de
Thu Jan 19 08:11:23 UTC 2006
On Thu, 2006-01-19 at 01:58 -0600, Mike McCarty wrote:
> Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> > On Thu, 2006-01-19 at 00:34 -0600, Mike McCarty wrote:
> >
> >>STYMA, ROBERT E (ROBERT) wrote:
>
> [snip]
>
> >>>I seem to remember that libc.so is LGPL, so that takes care of
> >>>the "hello world" program.
> >>
> >>That about sums it up. I have never released a commercial program
> >>for Linux, and probably never will. Mostly because Linux is not
> >>Linux, but rather Linux+GNU, and all of GNU is GPL or LGPL.
> >>Linux per se is not the problem, the problem is that *building*
> >>for Linux uses GNU, which, like all FSF stuff, is GPL or LGPL,
> >>both of which are highly infective (though LGPL is slighly less
> >>so).
> >
> > Non-sense. The Linux glibc's and other fundamental system libraries'
> > licenses (e.g. libstdc++) have been carefully chosen to allow this case.
>
> I'm starting to get annoyed by this.
Feel free to do so, ... I would not have replied to this thread, if I
wouldn't think you are spreading FUD.
EOT - I am not going to continue this thread.
Ralf
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