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From: William Mills <wmills@ti.com>
To: Paul Eggleton <paul.eggleton@linux.intel.com>
Cc: yocto@yoctoproject.org
Subject: Re: How to include libstdc++ in an image?
Date: Mon, 2 Jul 2012 14:25:43 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4FF1E7A7.3030006@ti.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1917420.7HU16QZsXx@helios>

On 06/30/2012 06:29 PM, Paul Eggleton wrote:
> On Saturday 30 June 2012 23:56:18 Koen Kooi wrote:
>> But do note that if you ship libstdc++ without anything linking to it you
>> forego on the linking exception to the GPL. That is general is a Very Bad
>> Thing(TM), so ship a helloword.cpp binary to keep the fsf happy. As an
>> added bonus the helloworld will drag in the lib automatically.
>
> [citation needed]
>

I agree with Koen.

I have had discussion with the FSF and others in the open source 
compliance arena.  The first sentence appears to be the prevailing 
interpretation.  I have asked the FSF to clarify its position on the FAQ 
but no luck so far.

Bill


  parent reply	other threads:[~2012-07-02 18:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-06-27  2:22 How to include libstdc++ in an image? maniacbug
2012-06-28 10:56 ` Paul Eggleton
2012-06-28 18:50   ` maniacbug
2012-06-30 21:56   ` Koen Kooi
2012-06-30 22:29     ` Paul Eggleton
2012-06-30 22:34       ` Khem Raj
2012-07-02 18:25       ` William Mills [this message]
2012-07-01 16:15     ` maniacbug

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