uClibc copyright and licence audit

[Rob Landley]

On Tuesday 18 September 2007 5:59:20 am Mark Brown wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 17, 2007 at 03:57:22PM -0500, Rob Landley wrote:
> > On Monday 17 September 2007 8:22:23 am Simon Richter wrote:
> > > and interesting ways (for example, the LGPL stipulates that the build
> > > system is part of the source;
> >
> > Where?
> >
> > http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/lgpl-2.1.html
> >
> > Could you point out the clause, please?
>
> In the definition of the term "Source code" in clause 0 it says:
>
>     For a library, complete source code means [...] plus the scripts
>     used to control compilation and installation of the library.

Interesting edge case.  Compilation and installation are controlled by the 
makefiles.  The kconfig system from the kernel is configuration, which is 
neither.  (It's a standalone utility that outputs a human readable text 
file.)

How that would go in court is an open question...

Rob
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