LGPL and the OSD

[John Cowan]

On Thu, 2 Nov 2000, Bryan George wrote:

> It seems that, since shared library mechanisms in commercial embedded
> systems are quite rare, this provision is a license trap against the
> field of commercial embedded systems development, which if so would be a
> clear violation of OSD clause 6.

You might as well argue that because MS-DOS (not Windows) has no
shared library system, that the inability of typical open-source
libraries to run on MS-DOS is a violation.

For that matter, you might as well argue that because most toasters
can't run software, that that's a license trap too.

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John Cowan                                   cowan at ccil.org
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