On Sun, 2023-01-15 at 16:04 +0100, Gert Doering wrote: > Hi, > > On Sun, Jan 15, 2023 at 08:37:00AM -0500, James Bottomley wrote: > > The GNU project began in 1982. Static libraries for SYS-V were > > initially proposed around 1986 and didn't become widespread until > > the 90s. > > And exactly when was *the Apache license* published, or GPL *v2*? > > This was the context, not "the GNU project". > > Wikipedia says the GPLv2 was released in June 1991, and as you say, > shared libraries already existed then.
No, I'm saying two things
1. The GNU project began before shared libraries were a thing, so
the system library exception was specifically designed to allow
shipping of GNU tools along with huge statically linked blobs of
proprietary or otherwise differently licensed code under a non-
GPL licence.
2. The advent of Apache-2 didn't change the analysis in 1.
James
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