On 3 Feb 2004, Henning Makholm wrote: > > But if you link the binary with the C library of a proprietary Unix (and > > it's > > not dynamic linking), you are distributing the component with the executable > No I'm not. I can perfectly well give away a staically linked binary > without also giving a copy of the libc.a file is linked with. The fact > that *parts* of the library go into the binary cannot be used to > recover a libc.a that the recipient of my binary can use to recompile > from scratch. Those parts are not even easily identifyable in the binary.
So it doesn't count as distributing the component unless you distribute the entire unaltered file? That seems like a strange interpretation, prone to some obvious loopholes.
