Walter Landry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Francesco Poli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Sat, 14 Jul 2007 21:56:27 -0700 (PDT) Walter Landry wrote: >> >> > Francesco Poli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > > On Mon, 2 Jul 2007 12:31:13 -0400 Anthony Towns wrote: >> > > >> > > [...] >> > > > Note that _if_ we do stick to the view we've taken up until now, >> > > > when we have a LGPLv3 only glibc in the archive, we'll no longer >> > > > be able to distribute GPLv2-only compiled executables. >> > > >> > > Unless the GPLv2-only work copyright holder(s) add(s) a special >> > > exception, similar to the one needed to link with the OpenSSL >> > > library, right? >> > > >> > > This scenario is worrying me... :-( >> > >> > Is this going to be a problem for the kernel? It is definitely not >> > going to go to GPLv3. >> >> Is the Linux kernel linked with any LGPL'd work? >> AFAIUI, it is not, so no problem for the kernel. > > Doesn't the kernel get its implementations for pow(), sqrt(), > printf(), and the rest of the C standard library from glibc, which is > LGPL'd?
No. The kernel is completely self-contained. Some code may of course have been borrowed from glibc at some point, but that's irrelevant. -- Måns Rullgård [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]