On Thu, 07 Oct 2010, Florian Weimer wrote: > * Don Armstrong: > > [The system library exception is] intended for cases where you're > > running a GPLed work on a system which is GPL-incompatible. > > Not in this generality. We aren't allowed to link GPLed software to > OpenSSL, after all.
Because OpenSSL isn't a library which fits the requirements of the System Library exception in GPLv2. 1) OpenSSL accompanies the executables. 2) It is not a major component #2 means that it is also not compatible with GPLv2+ works or GPLv3 works, either. > > They're referring to the common case where the System Library > > exception is not invoked. > > And we can't use that, as we've seen with OpenSSL. You're conflating GPLv2 with v3. They are very different with regards to the System Library exception, as I explained in my original message. Please consider rereading it and pointing out precisely where I have misread the license along with supporting quotations from the licence itself if you feel that I am misrepresenting the ramifications of GPLv3'd works in regards to the System Library exception when linking to a CDDL'ed libc. Don Armstrong -- life's not a paragraph And death i think is no parenthesis -- e.e. cummings "Four VII" _is 5_ http://www.donarmstrong.com http://rzlab.ucr.edu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
