Re: [PATCH] USB: mark USB drivers as being GPL only

From: Olof Johansson
Date: Sun Feb 10 2008 - 08:45:52 EST


On 10/02/2008, Daniel Hazelton <dhazelton@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Yes, of course, and I'll never argue otherwise. However, what I was saying is
> that it is the claim of the FSF that, in no uncertain terms, a C program that
> uses the standard C library interface and is linked to glibc instead of, say,
> the old Borland libc, is automatically GPL because it's been linked to GPL
> code.
>
glibc is LGPL and will not force you to use GPL.
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