On 09/19/13 14:40, Karl Berry wrote: > any functionality > offered by glibc is pretty obviously pointless to keep GPL'd or LGPL3'd. > For non-glibc functionality, though, it's less clear to me.
In practice, that guideline is close to the same as the guideline you objected to, in the sense that they have very similar practical consequences even if that guideline comes from the GNU philosophy whereas the guideline I gave is based more on pragmatics. It might be helpful to give the GNU-philosophy guideline first, as the basic principle, and then list the pragmatic guideline as being commonly associated with it (albeit distinct) when Gnulib is concerned.
