Rick Marshall wrote:
> if it's right, and i suppose it is, then everything - ie EVERYTHING -
> that runs on linux links to libc and therefore must be gpl (under linux
> at least). that also implies that in the view of the fsf there is only
> one "work" running on a linux system.
>
No. This is not true. This is not the view of the FSF. Linking a work to
the Gnu C library does not cause the derived work to be GPL-infected.
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