On Mon, 2 Feb 2004, Glenn Maynard wrote: > Huh? "unless that component itself accompanies the executable". Debian > can't use the OS exception.
If that means what it appears to mean, how could the OS exemption have ever been meant to be useful at all? I don't believe dynamic linking was popular when the clause was initially written. For that matter, ignoring the silliness about dynamic linking creating derivative works (a controversy that didn't exist back then), the OS exemption can only have any effect when you distribute the component with the executable anyway. After all, if you don't distribute it, why would the GPL oblige you to release its source at all?
