Retiring from uClibc development

[Rob Landley]

On Saturday 01 April 2006 8:48 pm, Rich Felker wrote:
> Surely the API is a 'copyright barrier' in the case of ordinary
> bloated desktop/workstation/server systems where you can swap one
> implementation out for another (at least in principle, with enough
> nasty ABI wrappers..). But if someone's releasing a compact system
> (maybe embedded, or maybe just a low-resource laptop, etc.) that needs
> internationalization functionality, and for which no other
> implementation will fit in the size constraints, then such a system is
> arguably a derived work, I think. It becomes completely clear as soon
> as they ship the GPL library code along with the product, of course...

The same argument could be made about the Linux kernel itself, which is GPL 
not LGPL.

Rob
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