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Subject: Re: [OT]

Author: Sven Reichard

Date: 05:23:52 07/04/02

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On July 03, 2002 at 18:24:04, Ralf Elvsén wrote:

>On July 03, 2002 at 13:52:36, Christophe Theron wrote:
>
>>On July 02, 2002 at 17:01:05, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote:
>>
>>>On July 02, 2002 at 16:16:49, Christophe Theron wrote:
>>>
>>I still do not know if by compiling Tiger with GCC, which is GPL, I am forced to
>>release the source code together with the binaries.
>>
>>I have read the GPL carefully, and this point is unclear.
>
>As far as I understand, the GNU C-library is released under the
>GNU Lesser General Public License, which is not the same thing.
>Read more at www.gnu.org.

You certainly have no problems at all publishing a compiled version which is
dynamically linked to glibc. If glibc is LGPL (which I also think it is) you
could even link it statically and sell it - not that you get any ideas here :)
GPL certainly doesn't cover the result of the compilation.

Sven.

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