> But Fedora, whose policies Richard Fontana helped to shape over the
> years, considers OpenSSL to be a library covered by the system library
> exception.

Afaict, Fedora does not consider every package that they offer to be
part of the operating system, whereas Debian does.

> In practice, the FSF seems to agree with this interpretation (for the
> GPLv2) because Microsoft Services for UNIX links GPL software such as
> GCC against a proprietary libc which is part of the same software
> package, and I don't think the FSF has even tried to stop them.  (This
> libc is BSD-derived and not the Windows kernel or something like that,
> it is an intermediate layer.)

Have the FSF been made aware of this?


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