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

[Alexei Khlebnikov]

On Mon, 10 May 2004 11:09:43 +0200
Michel Bardiaux <mbardiaux at peaktime.be> wrote:

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

No.

Running programs under the linux kernel is not considered as linking,
also kernel license has special clarifying that it is permitted.

All non-free linux software links to glibc dynamically which is permitted by LGPL.