X and LSB

[H. Peter Anvin]

Jim Knoble wrote:
> 
> På 2000-Mar-17 klokka 11:21:21 +0100 skrivet V man:
> 
> : That is why, if i were a commercial software house, i would consider
> : the possibility to produce a statically linked version of my product.
> 
> Ah, but linking non-GPLed code statically with LGPLed libraries
> violates the license; the LGPL specifically states this.  Something to
> keep in mind.
> 

No, you just have to deliver unlinked or dynamically linked binaries as
well.  In the very early days of Linux, when there was a new version of
libc almost weekly, at least one Linux distribution came as .a files to
be linked against your local libc.

	-hpa