Retiring from uClibc development

Manuel Novoa III mjn3 at codepoet.org
Sun Apr 2 03:20:04 UTC 2006


On Sat, Apr 01, 2006 at 09:22:07PM -0500, Rob Landley wrote:
> 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.

A commercial user's application would be _linked_with_ GPL'd code, which
is a big difference from just using the kernel.

Manuel



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