Major components exception

• The GPL requires that complete source code ("for all modules")
  • GPL § 3
• But what about the system's C library?
• It's included with the "major components" of the operating system
  • compiler
  • kernel
  • etc
• "unless that component itself accompanies the executable."
  
  
  

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