> But Fedora, whose policies Richard Fontana helped to shape over the > years, considers OpenSSL to be a library covered by the system library > exception.
Afaict, Fedora does not consider every package that they offer to be part of the operating system, whereas Debian does. > In practice, the FSF seems to agree with this interpretation (for the > GPLv2) because Microsoft Services for UNIX links GPL software such as > GCC against a proprietary libc which is part of the same software > package, and I don't think the FSF has even tried to stop them. (This > libc is BSD-derived and not the Windows kernel or something like that, > it is an intermediate layer.) Have the FSF been made aware of this? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-legal-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/5448c79a.8000...@bitmessage.ch