Craig Sanders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > the GPL explicitly makes an exception for libraries which are included > with the operating system itself.
Not quite so - it makes an exception for binaries that are NOT included with that operating system itself. Debian ships a large number of GPL'd binaries that are linked against LGPL'd libraries (chiefly libc). This practice is not compatible with what Debian says in the statement that started this thread - and I too think such incompatibility may reasonably be called "cheating". (Not that it's really relevant, but IMHO Debian's practice is right and the statement wrong.) --Arnt
