* Don Armstrong: > On Wed, 22 Sep 2010, Florian Weimer wrote: >> * Don Armstrong: >> >> > CDDL'ed libc (and other System Library) and GPLv3+ work: OK >> >> I think the FSF wants us not to be able to use the System Library >> exception. It is only intended for proprietary operating systems. > > It's intended for cases where you're running a GPLed work on a system > which is GPL-incompatible.
Not in this generality. We aren't allowed to link GPLed software to OpenSSL, after all. >> The FSF also unconditionally labels the CDDL als GPL-incompatible >> (although it is not clear if the license overview was thoroughly >> updated for GPL version 3). > > They're referring to the common case where the System Library > exception is not invoked. And we can't use that, as we've seen with OpenSSL. > My suggestion was to link GPLed binaries to such a libc which > circumvents most of these problems. However, because of design > considerations, the libc<->kernel interface is not as stable in SunOS > as it is in linux, which makes this a long-term labor intensive > process. Oh. I expected the interface to be extremely stable in the foreseeable future. 8-/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-legal-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87fwwhk7tw....@mid.deneb.enyo.de
