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Hi, On Fri, 7 Mar 2003, David Lang wrote: > The reason he gave back when the discussion was first started (months ago) > was that klibc is designed to be directly linked into programs, and it was > felt that this would not be possible with the GPL. In fact klibc was > adopted instead of dietlibc speceificly BECOUSE of the license. There is still the possibility to support multiple libc implementation, if you don't like dietlibc, you're still free to use klibc. > while you could add an additional clause to the GPL to allow it to be > linked into programs directly the I seriously doubt if the self appointed > 'GPL police' would notice the issue and would expect that fears on the > subject would limit it's use. Could we at least try to not let this degenerate into a flamewar? Thanks. bye, Roman - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||||
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