uClibc copyright and licence audit

[Rob Landley]

On Tuesday 18 September 2007 10:35:32 am Kevin Day wrote:
> On 9/18/07, Mark Brown <broonie at sirena.org.uk> 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.
>
> So what you are saying is that if some genious found a way to make
> Microsoft Visual Studio C++ compile the uClibc source code, that would
> suddenly put Microsoft Visual Studio C++ under the LGPL v2.1 license?

Nah, just the project file you used.

Rob
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