Florian Weimer wrote: > I could be persuaded by an argument along these lines: The Rust and Go > cases are different because for its Rust and Go dependencies, there > would not be a trace in the installed system of the licenses of those > source-only dependencies. That can also be the case with static libraries in other languages, and so-called header-only libraries in C++. I always found it strange that the license field policy singles out Rust, as I don't see how static Rust libraries are legally different from other static libraries. In cases where a library (in C or whatever) is packaged in both shared and static forms, installing a statically linked program won't pull in any library package. The shared library package with the license may or may not be present depending on what else is installed. > The situation with glibc, libgcc and libstdc++ is different because they > are also installed separately, so their license information is always > part of the installation. Because the statically linked code is only a part of the library, and the rest of the library is dynamically linked and thus pulled in as a package with a license field? It seems to me that that argument would also apply to inlined subroutines, generics, templates and similar code snippets that get compiled into the using program. I believe many shared libraries have such inlined snippets, and my impression is that they're usually not reflected in the license field of programs that use the library. Björn Persson
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