Major components (fact)

• "But libFoo.so is part of the operating system"
  • The exception was written mainly for C libraries
    GPL says:

    However, as a special exception, the source code distributed need not include anything that is normally distributed (in either source or binary form) with the major components (compiler, kernel, and so on) of the operating system on which the executable runs, unless that component itself accompanies the executable.

    
    

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