[CentOS] Re: CentOS and SL, together? -- GPL, LGPL, kernel and user ...

From: Johnny Hughes <mailing-lists at hughesjr.com>
> Nope ... I can't build that with GNU gcc and against GNU glibc and
> release it ... sorry, no OpenAFS :(

???  Actually, you _can_.  You just can't link it into the GPL kernel program.
[ I'm not posting this to cross you.  But someone correct me if I'm wrong. ]

There is nothing in the GPL that prevents a GPL compiler from producing non-GPL code.
And LGPL can be statically linked against non-GPL compatible code.

So that means the OpenAFS _server_, which is user-space, can be built with GPL GCC
and dynamically linked against LGPL GLibC.

But the OpenAFS _client_, which is kernel-space, cannot be statically linked into
the GPL kernel program.

[ I believe there is an OpenAFS client that is GPL, missing various IBM code. ]



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