Re: [xml-dev] Re: licensing ... [Re: binary XML API and scientific use cases [Re: [xml-dev] [ANN] nux-1.0beta2 release

> 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).

Glibc, the FSF implementation of the standard C library (libc), is covered
by the *L*GPL, not the GPL.  No need to panic.

Looking at a fairly recent release (2.2.5), the last line of the README
refers you to COPYING.LIB, and looking at that says pretty clearly that
it's the LGPL.
	/r$

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