FWIW, System libraries are covered by exceptions to the GPL and even the FSF have written in a FAQ that those don't taint anything in userland.
This does remind me that it's really desirable to be able to build OO with clang: not exactly due to the licensing but for cleanliness and portability. --- On Wed, 7/20/11, Eike Rathke wrote: ... > > I'd suggest to drop the Linux general binary distributions > anyway, there's a hell of base line involved to support > various mixes of library versions. Providing packages for > a few specific distributions would probably be easier, > with those there would be no need to bundle runtime > prerequisites. > On FreeBSD we take care of our own binaries: we do frequent package builds in a cluster, and I am sure linux distributions do the same. cheers, Pedro.
