Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Wed, 26 Sep 2001 23:37:12 +0200 | From | David Weinehall <> | Subject | Re: Binary only module overview |
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On Wed, Sep 26, 2001 at 12:17:37PM -0700, Crispin Cowan wrote:
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> That is not clear to me. I have been unable to find a definitive > reference that states that is the case. If so, it is problematic, > because then every user-land program that ever #include'd errno.h from > glibc is GPL'd, because glibc #include's errno.h, among other GPL'd > kernel header files. Are you sure you want to declare nearly all > proprietary Linux applications to be in violation of the GPL?
AFAIK, the glibc (and most other libraries) are LGPL rather than GPL.
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