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Planning for decades

Posted Apr 5, 2012 20:02 UTC (Thu) by Wol (guest, #4433)
In reply to: Planning for decades by smurf
Parent article: A turning point for GNU libc

Actually, I believe there IS something that would stop them releasing proprietarylibc.

It's called a contract.

aiui, the standard contract assigning copyright to the FSF places some restrictions on what they can do, and that's one of them.

Cheers,
Wol

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