• To: Rick Marshall <rjm@z...>
• Subject: Re: Re: licensing ... [Re: binary XML API and scientificuse cases [Re: [ANN] nux-1.0beta2 release
• From: Elliotte Harold <elharo@m...>
• Date: Sat, 27 Nov 2004 17:40:22 -0500
• Cc: Aleksander Slominski <aslom@c...>, xml-dev@l...
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Rick Marshall wrote:

> if it's right, and i suppose it is, then everything - ie EVERYTHING - 
> that runs on linux links to libc and therefore must be gpl (under linux 
> at least). that also implies that in the view of the fsf there is only 
> one "work" running on a linux system.
> 

No. This is not true. This is not the view of the FSF. Linking a work to 
the Gnu C library does not cause the derived work to be GPL-infected.

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Elliotte Rusty Harold  elharo@m...
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