On Sun, Sep 12, 2004 at 04:54:00PM +0200, Claus Färber wrote: > They don't share a common ABI for other programs.
This isn't interesting. Either a work is normally distributed as part of the system, or it's not; multiple implementations of an ABI don't affect that. You repeatedly ignore the important question, though. > That doesn't matter, though. Debian is never eligible to use the "operating > system" exception, due to "unless that component itself accompanies the > executable". > How is the relevant? The GPL OS exception, again, is not available > to Debian. Since you won't say how it's relevant, I'm assuming it's irrelevant and won't waste further time with this subthread. -- Glenn Maynard