[MPlayer-users] New MEncoder FrontEnd for Linux and Windows

Michel Bardiaux mbardiaux at peaktime.be
Mon May 10 11:09:43 CEST 2004


D Richard Felker III wrote:

> 
> The downside being that it's also illegal to release unless you want
> to release source too, since glibc is lgpl. (Actually there are a few
> other ways to make it legal but they're a pain...)
> 
> Rich
> 
IIRC glibc and the Linux kernel are exceptions, and you *may* release 
closed-source binaries linked statically or dynamically to glibc. 
Otherwise *all* commercial software for Linux would be in violation of 
(L)GPL.

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