The glibc source distribution I have (2.2.4) has both COPYING and COPYING.LIB. while looking at the sources I see some files pointing to COPYING, while most are pointing to COPYING.LIB. I think that all relevant files that get compiled into the glibc binaries are now under the LGPL (the glibc was once under the GPL but was moved to LGPL a long time ago).
Oded -- "You are caught in a maze of twisty little Sendmail rules, all obscure." -- "Sendmail: Theory and Practice", Avolio and Vixie ----- Original Message ----- From: "Shachar Shemesh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, November 28, 2001 3:57 PM Subject: Re: making a non-GPLed module > Gilad Ben-Yossef wrote: > > >>On 2001 November 28 ,Wednesday 11:59, Gilad Ben-Yossef wrote: > >> > >>>Again, I am no lawyer, but the "official" GNU/FSF standpoint as I > >>>understand is that the fact that module links against a GPLed work > >>>(the Linux kernel) means in is considered a "derived work" of the > >>>Linux kernel and therefor can only be published under the GPL. > >>> > >>That doesn't sound right to me. Wouldn't it imply that any program > >>that you write using gcc (and which links against gnu's standard C > >>library, naturally) must therefore be GPL? > >> > > > >This would mean exactly that IF the GNU C libs were licensed under the GPL, but they are not. They are licensed under the LGPL (the GNU Lesser Public License, a.k.a the GNU Library Public License) which does allow linking (without cosidering the linked work as "derived") and was made for exactly these cases. > > > >So we are both right ;-) > > > >Gilad. > > > > Actually, and I am far from being sure about it, I think that glibc is > licensed under the GPL, with a specific clause that says that programs > linked against it are excluded from this license. The LGPL is not > something RMS seems to like any more ;) > > Shachar > > > ================================================================= > To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with > the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command > echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
