Hi brian, On Wed, 2021-02-03 at 14:31 +0000, brian m. carlson wrote: [...] > Note the phrase "unless that component itself accompanies the > executable." It's long been my interpretation, as with other > contributors, that this applies to distribution from the same mirror > archive. In any event, it's obvious that it applies to the same > distribution medium, and Debian ships DVD and disk images from its > infrastructure.
I'm curious what you think of GPL-2 software linking libraries that cannot be distributed under terms compatible with the GPL-2 such as GCC's runtime libraries? For example the following libraries are licensed under the GPL-3-or- later and their source code cannot be distributed under terms of the GPL-2 (part of gcc): libgcc, libatomic, libstdc++-v3, libobjc, libgfortran? If you think the system library exception should not apply to any library in Debian, would Debian need to stop linking any GPL-2 software against any of GCC's runtime libraries? Ansgar
