> My question is this: if in fact the letter of the law of the LGPL is
> followed, doesn't any program that links to glibc need to distribute
> re-linkable object files? Wouldn't that include Netscape, Staroffice
You need to be able to relink with the library. If the library is shared
then that seems to be fine.
> and all other Linux programs that run against glibc? After all, these
> programs have never been "home-relinkable," so-to-speak.
Yes. Netscape for example is dynamically linked.
If someone is providing static linked binaries against glibc and not providing
the required offer to either provide a dynamic linked one or a .o file (ie
an ld -r) of the application and it is on the Red Hat extra applications disk
I'd like to know, along with a copy of the correspondance involved.
Im sure the same applies for SuSE and any other vendor
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