On Thu, 2004-02-26 at 08:28, Svyatogor wrote:
> Hmm, this all issue with GPL seems o be quite strange. Let's take as an
> example Gaim, which is under GPL license. The have a Windows build, thus
> linking against proprietary libraries (Win32 API). In this case it is
> ok, but with XFree it seems to cause problems :/

We were just discussing this the other day, actually.

The end of clause 3 of the GPL:

"However, as a special exception, the source code distributed need not
include 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, unless that component
itself accompanies the executable."

In general, operating systems are excepted, and things included with the
toolchain are excepted.

Thanks,
Donnie
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Donnie Berkholz
Gentoo Linux

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