On Sat, 2005-05-28 at 20:56 -0400, Bryan J. Smith wrote: > 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. ] > > Sorry ... I was talking about the SRPM from SL ... it also build the kernel modules ... -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20050528/bd730ad9/attachment-0004.sig>