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


From: Florian Weimer
Subject: Re: Microsoft's Linux Kernel Code Drop Result of GPL Violation
Date: Sun, 02 Aug 2009 14:47:55 +0200

* Hyman Rosen:

> 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.

This is not true for the Interix libc, which comes with Interix GCC,
and not with Windows.  Yet you think that the system library exception
still applies.


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