[135] in Athena User Interface
Re: License crap.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Thomas Bushnell, BSG)
Wed Jun 7 19:08:19 2000
To: Richard Tibbetts <tibbetts@MIT.EDU>
Cc: aui@MIT.EDU
From: tb@MIT.EDU (Thomas Bushnell, BSG)
Date: 07 Jun 2000 19:08:15 -0400
In-Reply-To: Richard Tibbetts's message of "Wed, 07 Jun 2000 16:39:46 -0400"
Message-ID: <u1hvgzl144g.fsf@pusey.mit.edu>
Richard Tibbetts <tibbetts@MIT.EDU> writes:
> I was just thinking about the issue that I brought up, about linking
> AFS libraries to GPL'd software. I think that I have created an issue
> where there is none. A quick read of the GPL says nothing about not
> being allowed to link against proprietary libaries. One might consider
> (for example) Sun's X libraries, which plenty of GPL'd software links
> against.
>
> Am I missing something? I really don't think we would actually be
> violating anything.
If you distribute binaries, you must distribute complete source code.
You must (3a):
a. Accompany it with the complete corresponding machine-readable
source code, which must be distributed under the terms of
Sections 1 and 2 above on a medium customarily used for
software interchange; or,
Complete. Not "all but this part of the library", but complete.
The only exception is
"anything that is normally distributed (in either source or binary
form) with the major components (compiler, kernel, and so on) of the
operating system on which the executable runs"
And so you don't have to distribute libc.
