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Re: why not GPL?

Posted Feb 7, 2003 6:16 UTC (Fri) by larryr (guest, #4030)
In reply to: why not GPL? by pflugstad
Parent article: Initramfs status

> is this a "shared" (i.e. .so)

I think it is in effect a shared object, but there is some magic to do it.

> What issues does the GPL run into here?

I think only GPL-compatible programs can link with GPL libraries, and
that is too restrictive for the klibc requirements.

Larry

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