Ah indeed, that's true.  I recall that now.

On Sunday, June 16, 2013, Richard Frith-Macdonald wrote:

>
> On 16 Jun 2013, at 11:52, Gregory Casamento 
> <[email protected]<javascript:;>>
> wrote:
>
> > Effectively option #2 violates the GPL anyway since, if it's an integral
> part of the app and loaded as a bundle, it's still *required* by the app.
> It's a legal gray area.
>
> Well everything is a legal gray area, because the law is always open to
> interpretation/reinterpretation.
> However my understanding is that providing a GPL bundle that we do not
> depend upon does NOT make gnustep-base GPL'd, precisely becaause it is NOT
> required by apps.
> This is the same rationale as us providing an SSL bundle which uses
> OpenSSL ... we don't depend on it, but we make it available.
> I think having a loadable BFD bundle would be great, because we could load
> it when we want a usable stacktrace to be printed out, but not bother
> loading it when we don't want to do debugging.
>
>

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