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| From: | John W. Eaton |
| Subject: | Re: Re-distributing Octave built with Intel Compilers? |
| Date: | Fri, 22 Jul 2016 21:13:24 -0400 |
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On 07/22/2016 08:44 PM, edmund ronald wrote:
In a world where everything mostly is dynamically linked to everything else, spreading the idea that linking to a library violates the GPL opens a really nasty can of worms. essentially it would mean that free software cannot run on a machine with any non-free software, including the BIOS.
The GPL has an exception for system libraries. jwe
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