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Interesting. I think there is a loophole wich makes it possible to use a libc that contains libio under all circumstances: As a special exception, if you link this library with files compiled with a GNU compiler to produce an executable, this does not cause the resulting executable to be covered by the GNU General Public License. As a long as you link the executable with at least one file compiled with a GNU compiler that's not part of libio itself. For glibc this is always the case since it is only possible to compile glibc with gcc. However, it doesn't look very good, and will no doubt lead to rants about the FSF not respecting their own license. Since the FSF owns the copyright on libio, we could ask them to relicense those parts of libio that are in glibc under the LGPL, or add a special exception for glibc. By the way, IIRC, on Linux libc5 did also include parts of libio. Could be used as ammunition against any FSF/glibc bashers. Mark
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