On Tue, 12 Aug 2003, Renaud Deraison wrote: > Also, people who distribute Nessus binaries on non-glibc systems (ie: > *BSD) are against the law, as they need by consent to link the GPL > code to a non-[L]GPL library. The only exception is for OpenSSL (read > the licence)
Standard system libraries (and libc is a standard system library, isn't it?) are covered by: 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. See http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#TOCWritingFSWithNFLibs --Pavel Kankovsky aka Peak [ Boycott Microsoft--http://www.vcnet.com/bms ] "Resistance is futile. Open your source code and prepare for assimilation."
