• To: Rick Marshall <rjm@z...>
• Subject: Re: Re: licensing ... [Re: binary XML API and scientificuse cases [Re: [ANN] nux-1.0beta2 release
• From: Rich Salz <rsalz@d...>
• Date: Sat, 27 Nov 2004 22:35:49 -0500 (EST)
• Cc: "xml-dev@l..." <xml-dev@l...>
• In-reply-to: <41A8FD2F.9000708@z...>

> 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).

Glibc, the FSF implementation of the standard C library (libc), is covered
by the *L*GPL, not the GPL.  No need to panic.

Looking at a fairly recent release (2.2.5), the last line of the README
refers you to COPYING.LIB, and looking at that says pretty clearly that
it's the LGPL.
	/r$

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