Alan Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > /* Copyright (C) 1993, 1997, 1998 Free Software Foundation, Inc. > This file is part of the GNU IO Library. > > This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or > modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as > published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at > your option) any later version. > [...] > As a special exception, if you link this library with files > compiled with a GNU compiler to produce an executable, this does > not cause the resulting executable to be covered by the GNU General > Public License. This exception does not however invalidate any > other reasons why the executable file might be covered by the GNU > General Public License. */ > > And note a -GNU- compiler. Not even another GPL compiler. You can't even > use it with a competing free software product to produce non free binaries.
This is really bad. Even with the exception. How exactly did this happen and how much of glibc 2 is affected by this? - Dan
