RE: Roaring Penguin's view

On Wed, 12 Jun 2002, Patrik Stridvall wrote:

> > Thus, if glibc became LGPL, you could still develop a GPL'd wrapper app
> > that would communicate with your non-free program through e.g. a socket,
> > transferring the library calls to glibc, just like wineserver is
> > currently doing it for wine (though not for licensing reasons).
> > Actually, I am pretty certain that such a wrapper would be among the
> > first things created if glibc became GPL, probably by community members
> > who'd disagree with that move.
> 
> I you do that I'm 100% sure that you will be sued by the FSF.
> Whether they would win is another matter.

Probably true.  Why take the risk?  Just keep maintaining the LGPL version 
of glibc and there's not a thing that Stallman or the FSF could do to stop 
you.  You won't get the benefit of new updates, but even the FSF can't take 
away the code you've already got under the LGPL.

And isn't that why it's supposed to be so wonderful, after all?  :-)

Deven