GPL Clarification

Marc Spitzer mspitzer at gmail.com
Thu Jan 6 16:42:59 EST 2005


On Thu, 6 Jan 2005 15:58:46 -0500, Chris Vaughan <chrisv at parkavebank.com> wrote:
> This issue had been discussed to death on the list. If you'll read the archives from last month, you see that Renaud has already addressed all your concerns.
> 
> I will say that following your logic, any program that links to Gnu Libc would have to be GPL'ed as well. It is generally accepted that using shared libraries does not constitute creating a derivative work of those libraries.
> 

GLIBC is LGPL not GPL, big difference.

marc



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