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From: Patrick Kursawe <phosphan@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] No XFree86 w/ new license
Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2004 13:24:29
Message-Id: 20040226132427.GA24323@zaphod.anachem.ruhr-uni-bochum.de
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] No XFree86 w/ new license by Svyatogor
1 On Thu, Feb 26, 2004 at 03:28:33PM +0200, Svyatogor wrote:
2 > Hmm, this all issue with GPL seems o be quite strange. Let's take as an
3 > example Gaim, which is under GPL license. The have a Windows build, thus
4 > linking against proprietary libraries (Win32 API). In this case it is
5 > ok, but with XFree it seems to cause problems :/
6
7 Which part of
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9 However, as a special exception, the source code distributed need not
10 include anything that is normally distributed (in either source or binary
11 form) with the major components (compiler, kernel, and so on) of the
12 operating system on which the executable runs
13
14 do you not understand? :-)
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16 This was already mentioned in this thread.
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18 Bye, Patrick