[OT] Fun with walking package licenses

Mike McCarty mike.mccarty at sbcglobal.net
Tue Feb 21 15:12:53 UTC 2006


Andy Green wrote:
> 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:

If you don't want to discuss it, then why did you bring it up again?

Mike
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