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Re: Removal of support for GCC hosted on UWIN
On Jan 9, 2001, Nick Ing-Simmons <nik@tiuk.ti.com> wrote:
> Alexandre Oliva <aoliva@redhat.com> writes:
>> On Jan 9, 2001, David Korn <dkorn@pixelpower.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Wouldn't it be possible to just disable statically linking the shared lib?
>>
>> The GNU GPL doesn't make any difference between linking with a shared
>> or static library.
> So how does a binary that links (say) HPUX's libc.sl, or Sun's libc.so
> get allowed?
There's an exception in the GNU GPL that allows linking with standard
components of the operating system. Read the license for the gory
details.
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