[OT] Fun with walking package licenses

Andy Green andy at warmcat.com
Tue Feb 21 15:06:07 UTC 2006


Mike McCarty wrote:

>> I believe that despite what the packages say, the actual libraries used
>> in libgcc and compat-libstdc++ are LGPL, so this does not show a problem
>> AFAIK.
> 
> According to LGPL, they must provide their own stuff in a form suitable
> for reverse engineering and modification for the customer's own use.
> AFAICT, the only real distinction between GPL and LGPL is that the

We did this last month:

http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/2006-January/msg02996.html

-Andy

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