OA>> Actually it is true. as for the glibc conundrum which has Or, more precisely, it is how RMS understands the GPL. Yes, he thinks to link to GPLed binary makes the linking program "derived work". Even if work is never distributed after the act of linkage, the spirit (as I understood it) is that mere purpose of the program to link with GPLed binary on the user machine makes it covered by GPL as a "derived work". Example: if I had non-GPL mail client FooMail, that may use GPLed GNUFunnyQuotes library to generate signatures, I cannot distribute the code that makes use of GNUFunnyQuotes library (unless I accept GPL-compatible license), even if I never touch the library itself, but only instruct the user how to make the FooMail use the library. There still some magic happening that makes the code "derived work" even before it touches the GPL-ed code. That's what I understood from discussion I witnessed with GPL-Powers-That-Be. Obviously, that doesn't say Linus or any other particular person has the same understanding of GPL as the participants of that discussion.
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