From: Johnny Hughes <mailing-lists@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Nope ... I can't build that with GNU gcc and against GNU glibc and
> release it ... sorry, no OpenAFS :(
??? Actually, you _can_. You just can't link it into the GPL kernel program.
[ I'm not posting this to cross you. But someone correct me if I'm wrong. ]
There is nothing in the GPL that prevents a GPL compiler from producing non-GPL code.
And LGPL can be statically linked against non-GPL compatible code.
So that means the OpenAFS _server_, which is user-space, can be built with GPL GCC
and dynamically linked against LGPL GLibC.
But the OpenAFS _client_, which is kernel-space, cannot be statically linked into
the GPL kernel program.
[ I believe there is an OpenAFS client that is GPL, missing various IBM code. ]
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Bryan J. Smith mailto:b.j.smith@xxxxxxxx
