Re: Microsoft's Linux Kernel Code Drop Result of GPL Violation

[Hyman Rosen]

Alexander Terekhov wrote:
> So linking together and shipping the whole conglomerate doesn't mean
> "accompany" to you?

Correct.

I assume that the "accompany" clause was meant to prevent some
stratagem of avoiding GPL obligations by shipping a non-free
library and claiming that it was a system library; a system
library ought to be available on the system without needing to
come with a program.

GPLv3 did away with that, simply saying that a system library just
interfaces to system services or has routines whose implementations
are available elsewhere as source.