Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 18 Mar 1999 12:42:27 -0800 (PST) | From | Jeremy Fitzhardinge <> | Subject | Re: Q: ext2fs on other OS's |
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On 18-Mar-99 Peter van Sebille wrote: > The problem I'm having is that this application > must link against ntddll.dll (part of a normal NT distribution), but > its ntdll.lib (needed for linking) is _only_ included in the DKK. > Am I allowed to distribute this NT e2fsck work as GPL if the user > can't link the app without the DDK; or should I find a workaround > for this ?
The GPL gives special exception to system libraries which a GPL'd program must link against in order to run. The fact that the DDK doesn't come with the base OS is not an issue - Solaris doesn't ship with a C compiler, but that doesn't preclude distribution of GPL'd programs in binary form for Solaris (though it helps that there are free C compilers for Solaris, but there's probably no free substitute for ntddll.dll, unless Cygnus have done something clever).
J
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