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This is about the LGPL, which is a very different licence. I’ve not heard of it causing any problems. Glibc is licensed in this way, everything uses that.

• kragen 1y ago
  The LGPL is a very different license, but glibc is not licensed under it, nor under the GPL.
  • actionfromafar 1y ago
    Someone should update this then. Isn't glibc the poster child for LGPL? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glibc https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glibc
  • pmontra 1y ago
    It's got a number of different licenses for it's various components. LGPL 2.1 is among them. License file at https://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git;a=blob_plain;f=LICENSES;hb=HEAD https://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git;a=blob_plain;f=LICEN... Source at https://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git;a=summary https://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git;a=summary
    • kragen 1y ago
      I appreciate the correction. It looks like specifically the long double libm functions (things like extended precision square root and logarithm) and the DES implementation from SSLeay are licensed under the LGPL? That seems to conflict with badgersnake's link https://www.gnu.org/software/libc/#license https://www.gnu.org/software/libc/#license
  • badgersnake 1y ago
    That’s not what it says here: https://www.gnu.org/software/libc/#license https://www.gnu.org/software/libc/#license